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Nathan Schneider

Nathan Schneider is the author of Everything for Everyone:The Radical Tradition that is Shaping the Next Economy; Thank You, Anarchy: Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse and God in Proof: The Story of a Search From the Ancients to the Internet. He is is coeditor, with Trebor Scholz, of Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet. He teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Economic PolicyAugust 8, 2019

Fighting Capitalism With Capitalism

What if employee-owned businesses were the key to a healthier, more humane economy?

Nathan Schneider
EnvironmentFebruary 15, 2019

The Green New Deal Could Dramatically Expand Economic Democracy

We can accomplish great things by putting ordinary people in control.

Nathan Schneider
Internet and New MediaNovember 20, 2018

Antitrust For The Many, Not The Few

Somebody needs to challenge Facebook's outsized power over the media. It should be a cooperative association, not another unaccountable behemoth.

Nathan Schneider
EnergyMay 8, 2017

Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op

Is our energy grid a sleeping giant of collective ownership?

Nathan Schneider
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November 3, 2016

Letters From the November 21, 2016, Issue

State of denial… Platform fetishism?… Breath of fresh air… Drive the vote…

Our Readers and Nathan Schneider
TechnologyOctober 13, 2016

The Rise of a Cooperatively Owned Internet

Platform cooperativism gets a boost.

Nathan Schneider
Labor OrganizingSeptember 7, 2016

Denver Taxi Drivers Are Turning Uber’s Disruption on Its Head

In the bitter feud between tech firms and the taxi industry, drivers fight back with a killer app of their own: cooperative ownership.

Nathan Schneider
Ethical EconomicsSeptember 10, 2015

Classics of Catholic Economics

Nathan Schneider
Ethical EconomicsSeptember 9, 2015

How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics

Some Catholics have been quietly practicing them all along.

Nathan Schneider
Internet and New MediaMay 27, 2015

5 Ways to Take Back Tech

Enough of the doom and gloom! Here are a few big ideas for a digital revolution that enriches us all—not just the wealthy.

Nathan Schneider