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We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
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We are a think tank reimagining ownership to build an economy that works for everyone.
NEW: Interview: Alyssa Battistoni | Centre for Democratising Work
NEW: Interview: Alyssa Battistoni | Centre for Democratising Work
Amelia Horgan spoke to Alyssa Battistoni about capitalism, freedom and morality.
NEW: Public Power: Towards a New Social Contract for the Cost of Living Crisis
NEW: Public Power: Towards a New Social Contract for the Cost of Living Crisis
A new low carbon social contract is needed to secure consent for the energy transition; this pamphlet sets out a programme to reduce costs, cut emissions, and deepen security.
NEW: Visualising Extractive Capitalism
NEW: Visualising Extractive Capitalism
From the formation of the plantation slave economy to the modern-day climate crisis, we map how empire and extractive capitalism shaped Barbados, Britain and the wider world.
Forces of Production Newsletter
Forces of Production Newsletter
Track Macro With Us at Common Wealth. Click to read Forces of Production, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
Green Planning Commission
Green Planning Commission
The Green Planning Commission is a multi-year transatlantic collaboration focused on building policy and political action for the green mixed economy from 2024-2030.
Who Owns Britain?
Who Owns Britain?
How the radical experiment of privatisation transformed society and reshaped our lives.
Transition Security Project
Transition Security Project
The BREAK—DOWN
The BREAK—DOWN
New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate.
Spotlight
A great prize, but a great risk: why we all need the nationalised South Western Railway to work
A great prize, but a great risk: why we all need the nationalised South Western Railway to work
If fares don’t fall and services don’t improve, it could undermine the case for public ownership for a long time to come, says Sarah Nankivell of Common Wealth
Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages
Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages
The US and UK militaries are two of the institutions most responsible for climate crisis in the world. Only a reparative approach can begin to account for their role in environmental breakdown.
Grid is Good: The Case for Public Ownership of Transmission and Distribution
Grid is Good: The Case for Public Ownership of Transmission and Distribution
The public is already paying, and will inevitably pay, for the transformation of the grid to support a decarbonised electricity system. The question is how these costs are distributed and how investment is coordinated. Public ownership can address these urgent challenges.
Welfare to Arms: Shareholder Payouts in the Arms Industry Since 2010
Welfare to Arms: Shareholder Payouts in the Arms Industry Since 2010
National Grid | Briefing | Common Wealth
National Grid | Briefing | Common Wealth
Media & Events
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The Price of Survival
The Price of Survival
Why the energy transition can’t be left to the market.
Decarbonising the grid without large-scale public investment is impossible
Decarbonising the grid without large-scale public investment is impossible
Research shows that using public borrowing to fund renewable energy projects is cheaper than relying on the private sector.
BBC Radio 4 - The Other IRA
BBC Radio 4 - The Other IRA
What is President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and how might it affect the UK economy?
Climate Collateral: Exposing the Role of Militarism in the Climate Crisis
Climate Collateral: Exposing the Role of Militarism in the Climate Crisis
Asset managers won’t fix the climate crisis
Asset managers won’t fix the climate crisis
Institutional investors won’t finance the green transition on their own, when the rewards from fossil fuels are still so great.
For-profit schemes can’t drive the transition to net zero
For-profit schemes can’t drive the transition to net zero
Open Democracy | How the UK arms trade puts public cash into private pockets
Open Democracy | How the UK arms trade puts public cash into private pockets
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