An Economy of Our Own’s monthly Insider Update includes updates, events, resources, and other valuable tools for learning about and advancing feminist economic ideas. Sign up to receive the newsletter here. Dear neighbors, teachers, parents, I’m worried about our kids — aren’t you? Some say my boomer generation really screwed…

An Economy of Our Own’s monthly Insider Update includes updates, events, resources, and other valuable tools for learning about and advancing feminist economic ideas. Sign up to receive the newsletter here. Good afternoon, America! The purple crocus outdoors are blossoming this month, my first Robin sighted — a reminder of Nature’s reliability that…

An Economy of Our Own’s monthly Insider Update includes updates, events, resources, and other valuable tools for learning about and advancing feminist economic ideas. Sign up to receive the newsletter here. Dear friends, March is Women’s History Month, and you’ve probably been enjoying a flurry of stories about courageous women who have…

An Economy of Our Own’s monthly Insider Update includes updates, events, resources, and other valuable tools for learning about and advancing feminist economic ideas. Sign up to receive the newsletter here. Dear friends and lovers, Your interest in wonky matters of economics does not exclude matters of love. The word oikonomia, now economics, is…

An Economy of Our Own’s monthly Insider Update includes updates, events, resources, and other valuable tools for learning about and advancing feminist economic ideas. Sign up to receive the newsletter here. It’s typical for this time of year to assess oneself and turn over a few new leaves. So, I’ve…

This new year, we’re wishing for an economy that works for ALL of us. And we need your help to envision and build it. Wall Street’s economy waged as war has brought us what war always brings: huge inequality, loss, and ruin. Its winners require a great many losers. Together…

In 2022, we focused on important ways to move to a more caring economy, one that wages life not war. We explored new ratios to measure how well we’re really doing as individuals and as a society, beyond the GDP. We analyzed and organized around public banking. We looked at…

Wall Street’s economy waged as war has brought us what war always brings: huge inequality, loss, and ruin. Its winners require a great many losers. An economy waged as life can be different. It cooperates and collaborates. Its life-serving purpose requires women, mothers, and caregivers of all races, genders, and…

“The Woman worker needs Bread. But she also needs Roses.” — Rose Schneiderman, 1911 We ended the year by focusing on the growing phenomenon of labor organizing, including at big multinational companies like Starbuck’s and Amazon — and importantly a change toward more inclusive union leadership by women and people of color. We’ve noticed that women, beginning with Rose Schneiderman and her famous bread…