Market coordination — the organization of investment, production, and provision through the profit imperative and the perogatives of capitalist power — cannot adequately address the challenges of our age of overlapping emergency—from the cost of housing and healthcare to delivering deep decarbonization and resilience. How can we reorder our economy and politics to ensure collective prosperity and build a 21st Century green economic democracy?

As US Programme Director at Common Wealth, I work on this question through my own research and by leading the design and delivery of Common Wealth’s US research programme and strategy. Our US Programme is currently organized around three pillars:

  • Progressive macroeconomic governance and decommodification of life’s essentials: Universal social provision of energy, healthcare, elder/disability/childcare, housing, and transportation divorced from dependence on market access;

  • Democratically coordinated decarbonization and global green cooperativism;

  • Reorganising the corporate economy and building a green industrial democracy for the 21st century.

As Common Wealth develops its US research programme and strategy, I am keen to build collaborative relationships and partnerships in the US. My research has mainly focused on decarbonization and economic planning. And our fantastic Principal US Economist Alex Williams leads our US based economic analysis work.

Before joining Common Wealth, I researched (global) macrofinance, economic management, and industrial planning policy for decarbonization at E3G. There, I wrote a bi-weekly newsletter on green macrofinance and transition planning. I began my career as a researcher in progressive policy and political economy as Gar Alperovitz’s research assistant at the Democracy Collaborative’s Next System Project. There, I supported Alperovitz’s draft manuscript of political economic theory “The Next System,” which advances his model of a Pluralist Commonwealth, centered on (multiscaler and decentralized) democratic ownership and planning. 

I studied global political economy at Penn State and Columbia. But I’ve learned the most from lurking on Twitter.

Drawings by my partner!