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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

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.

Nikolai Fyodorov
Nikolai Fyodorov
1829-1903

Fyodorov was a Russian Orthodox philosopher who founded the school of Russian Cosmism, which holds that the aim of humankind must be to end the tyranny of physical limitation and death. His Philosophy of the Common Task is as astounding in the unabashed ambition set by its title as it is galvanizing and inspiring as a call to all to think beyond what is finite and familiar in bettering our lot through time.

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