Welcome to Capital Futures

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

Edward Conze
Edward Conze
1904-79

Edward Conze, best known today as an eminent scholar of Buddhism, began as a Marx-inspired dialectical logician. His ‘The Principle of Noncontradiction’ (1932) was decades ahead of its time.

Rudolf Hilferding
Rudolf Hilferding
1877-1941

A leader of the 'Austro-Marxian' school of Social Democracy, Hilferding showed how the ever-increasing concentration of finance capital onto the balance sheets of large financial institutions paved the way to public control of the real economy from the 'commanding heights' of finance.

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