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Maintained by Robert Hockett

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Public Finance for Perpetual
Public Progress

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889-1951

The logicized Kantianism of the early Wittgenstein's philosophy was, even if ultimately not sustainable without more refinement, quite seductive to one with my early pietist-cum-mathematical sensibilities. While that continues (somewhat ambivalently) to draw me, what endures most in his example is his intensity in seeking to get to 'the bottom of things,' which led him both into frequent seclusion (see photo) and into several flirtations with seeking early Soviet citizenship.

Knut Wicksell
Knut Wicksell
1851-1926

Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell was the leading Swedish economist and founder of the Stockholm school. His economic contributions would profoundly influence both the Keynesian and Austrian schools of economic thought. He was married to the noted feminist Anna Bugge, having begun his career as a radical journalist with a gift for mathematics. Coming to economics late in life and yet effectively founding modern endogenous money theory, he taught on the Law Faculty of Lund University in southern Sweden.

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