Organized Money
Powering the Next Progressive Era
Mark A Pinksy author Keith Mestrich author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The New Press
Published:24th Oct '19
Should be back in stock very soon
The U.S. financial system is a source of enormous conservative power. Yet most progressive people and organisations trust it with their money and so help fund their conservative opposition. Until progressives achieve a financial system that works for them, not against them, they will never sustain their gains. Organized Money warns that the next progressive era will fall short and allow conservatives to win again, unless progressives organise money. Its call to action is a ten-year, £1 trillion campaign in support of socially conscious financial power. And it delivers a strategy to win.
Praise for Organized Money:
"The authors provide many concrete examples of specific progressive enterprises that organize money [and] do good service in laying out the foundational principles of a nascent but growing movement. . . . A thought-provoking primer."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Money is leverage and power. In this striking book, both wide-ranging and fast-paced, Mestrich and Pinsky show that if progressives organize our money as well as our people and our ideas, we can build the muscle to make profound and lasting change."
—Felicia Wong, president and CEO, Roosevelt Institute
"Required reading for activists who are interested in crafting practical tools as powerful as their passion."
—Marc Morial, president and CEO, National Urban League
"Building on both extensive research and their own hard-won expertise, Mestrich and Pinsky, both pioneers in developing progressive financial system innovations, outline a strategy that cannot be ignored, even by those entrenched in the status quo."
—Janet Murguía, president and CEO, UnidosUS
"Mestrich and Pinsky offer us a vision of restorative capitalism, a call to action to work together, and a compelling strategy to get it done."
—Jay Coen Gilbert, co-founder, B Lab and the B Corp movement
"In this provocative and must-read book, Mestrich and Pinsky argue that the financial system is ultimately a public good, created by and for the public. . . . Organized Money provides a vision for a democratized financial system that serves, rather than exploits, we the people."
—K. Sabeel Rahman, president, Demos, and author of Democracy Against Domination
"Mestrich and Pinsky show us the solutions that progressives are exploring to use their capital to express their values, and how you can join them and fight back too."
—Morris Pearl, chairperson, Patriotic Millionaires
"The world today requires entirely new approaches, and Organized Money is unlike any effort before it to align money and value."
—Jeremy Heimans, CEO, Purpose, and co-author of New Power
ISBN: 9781620975046
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272 pages