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Water contamination – The cost of doing business?

Author: Caterina RostOn: Feb 04Categories: Graduate Post, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

Water pollution sign on the Waimakariri River

Water contamination – The cost of doing business?

A recently published article in the New York Times discussed an outrageous case of conscious water contamination by one of the corporate chemical giants, DuPont. In his extensive and detailed article, New York Times reporter Nathaniel Rich gave a...

The ‘Equity for Growth’ Frame Must Die

Author: Deric GruenOn: Jan 15Categories: Distribution, Fellow Post, Yesterday's Prosperity 1 Comment

The ‘Equity for Growth’ Frame Must Die

Distribution, Fellow Post, Yesterday's Prosperity

Recently, Sociology Professor Manuel Pastor came to Seattle to talk about growth and equity. Pastor is a well-known professor from USC whose work focuses on “the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities –...

What is Affluenza and Are You Infected?

Author: Caterina RostOn: Jan 05Categories: Consumption, Graduate Post, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

What is Affluenza and Are You Infected?

Consumption, Graduate Post, Yesterday's Prosperity

In recent weeks, the question of “what in the world is affluenza?” has regained prominence in the national media due to the infamous Ethan Couch case. In 2013, the sixteen-year-old Couch killed four people and injured numerous others driving drunk...

A People’s Climate Movement for the New Economy

Author: Deric GruenOn: Nov 12Categories: Distribution, Fellow Post, Prosperity Today, Prosperity Tomorrow, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

A People’s Climate Movement for the New Economy

Distribution, Fellow Post, Prosperity Today, Prosperity Tomorrow, Yesterday's Prosperity

This is cross-posted in The Leap, the blog of Naiomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and FrontandCentered, and is part of New Economy Week: From Austerity to Prosperity (November 9-15)—a public conversation about the ideas that can transform...

Too Good to Be True: Volkswagen’s “Clean Diesel” Scandal and the Rule of Profit

Author: Deric GruenOn: Oct 08Categories: Guest Post, Production, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

Too Good to Be True: Volkswagen’s “Clean Diesel” Scandal and the Rule of Profit

Guest Post, Production, Yesterday's Prosperity

Volkswagen’s deception, fraud, and regulatory and criminal violations are sickening. While it’s tempting and necessary to figure out what happened and who is responsible, it’s not sufficient. We need to question the underlying values and assumptions...

Richard Wolff at Rethinking Prosperity (Video)

Author: Deric GruenOn: Oct 01Categories: Events, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

China’s New Normal Crushed by Business as Usual

Author: Deric GruenOn: Aug 31Categories: Fellow Post, Purpose, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

China’s New Normal Crushed by Business as Usual

Fellow Post, Purpose, Yesterday's Prosperity

When China attempted to put stability ahead of growth, the vengeful wrath of financial markets showed no mercy. President Xi Jinping's attempt to define the narrative was quickly swallowed by fear. A warning to those that seek to make even slight...

The Rise of the Consumer Citizen

Author: ashleeeyvdOn: Aug 03Categories: Consumption, Undergraduate Post, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

A cartoon person has a weak arm on one side of their body to represent "citizen muscle" and a strong arm on the other side, representing the "consumer muscle."

The Rise of the Consumer Citizen

Consumption, Undergraduate Post, Yesterday's Prosperity

Arista Burwell-Chen We have all felt it, that intense longing for the newest, flashiest version of something we already own. Whether it be clothes, a car, or a computer, Americans are constantly told by the media and politicians that in order to be a...

Americans Are Dead First

Author: Stephen BezruchkaOn: Jul 06Categories: Consumption, Guest Post, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

Americans Are Dead First

Consumption, Guest Post, Yesterday's Prosperity

Stephen Bezruchka is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Health Services at the University of Washington. “To be or not to be” is the question Hamlet asked centuries ago. The answer in the United States is that not-being at too early an age is...

The Consequences of Our Insatiable Technology Appetites

Author: Neha SarafOn: Jun 10Categories: Consumption, Undergraduate Post, Yesterday's Prosperity No Comments

The Consequences of Our Insatiable Technology Appetites

Consumption, Undergraduate Post, Yesterday's Prosperity

By Neha Saraf | In such a rapidly advancing technological environment, we often get lost in the updates, latest gadgets, posts, tweets, texts, etc. Our voracious appetite for better, newer, faster, lighter technology can blind us to the simple truth...