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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

Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
1896-1954

Before settling on the vocation that I did, I was fairly sure I'd be an architect, writer or filmmaker, having been born to a family of Swedish architects and writing and filming since early secondary school. By far the most inspiring film-maker to me, then and now, has Dziga Vertov. Like Mayakovsky and Lissitzky, also featured in this Module, he was a leader of the Soviet avant garde,the dynamism, inventiveness, and sense of infinite possibility of which still drives nearly all that I do.

Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin
1857-1933

Clara Zetkin was a leader of the German Social Democrats both in and out of the Reichstag who sought to prevent Germany's entry into the First World War - a stance that disappointingly few Social Democrats took at the time. A founding figure in the German women's rights movement both before and after the war, she ultimately relocated to the Soviet Union after the Nazi rise to power, where her ashes lie interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

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