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Maintained by Robert Hockett

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Public Finance for Perpetual
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Welcome to Capital Futures, a Site dedicated to Financially Engineering Ever More Just and Remunerative, Labor-Owned Modes of Production and Distribution in the Spirit of Hamilton, Hilferding, Lincoln, List, Luxemburg, Marx, Perkins and Wicksell, Among Other Heroes of Human Emancipation.

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Columns, OpEds, Occasional Journalism

I'm no Marx or Keynes, but like them I do try to accompany most of my scholarly, policy advocacy, and legislative work with more accessible journalistic companion pieces. Here are some of my regular columns for Forbes, The Hill, FT, and Huffington Post, along with other occasional journalism.

Image: Ben Franklin at his printing press, 18th century Philadelphia

The Green New Deal

The Green New Deal initiative begun in 2018 marked the beginning of a return to ambitious public-private coordination in the cause of rebuilding the American economy along more just, productive, and sustainable lines. Hockett worked with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and her team from the start on the GND Resolution introduced to Congress in early 2019, then on the initiative's finance plan as well as much follow-up legislation found in the 'Legislation' Module of this site.

Image: Cover Art for Hockett's 'Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal
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Posthumous Mentors

Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
1871-1919

Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist philosopher, SDP leader and anti-war activist. Her 'Accumulation of Capital' marked a major advance in the Marxian understanding of capital as an inherently expansionary mode of production that rendered colonialism and war all but inevitable. The depth of her work compares favorably to roughly contemporaneous works by Hilferding, Hobson, Bukharin, and Lenin on the same subjects.

John Brown
John Brown
1800-59

Best known as the leader of the raid on Harper's Ferry shortly before the Civil War, Brown was not just a morally impassioned liberator but also a painstaking planner, forming a large guerilla army of Maroon and abolitionist families with Black as well as white generals, all bent on liberating all slaves in raids from base camps throughout the Appalachians. Prior to taking up arms, he founded one of the earliest racially integrated farm communities in America in Upstate New York.

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