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Productive entrepreneurs create a space for the future by innovating new combinations of economic activity and pushing back against entrenched interests.

Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

expertise and entrepreneurial interest in victimhood and exploitation

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Scaling the personal grantmaking sector · Molly Mielke

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A key focus within PBC approaches is the intentional design of diverse economic activities, so as to strengthen various forms of capital, including through generating funds for investment into local communities. Achieving this regenerative approach is supported by integrating the key principles of local ownership and democratic participation.

Prof Ingrid Burkett • Situating Community Wealth Building and Place Based Capital in the Australian context

institution that mattered. I have often said that if a dog were made the president of Yale, Yale would still get its money. This attitude had to change, and the most reliable way to make sure it changed was to increase the number of black people on company boards and in the higher echelons of corporate enterprises.

Vernon Jordan Jr • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir

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Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

With a more decentralized structure, modern idea machines can “arm the rebels” right where they are, instead of hiring them into a foundation. The popularity of so-called regrantor programs (i.e. scout programs) reflects this trend, where talented individuals are given funding to make grants on behalf of the grantmaking organization.