New America Events This Month

Professor Michael Sherraden will discuss his work on policies and programs that can help poor people build assets in developing nations. His talk will be followed by comments about how the successes of asset-building policies can be applied to microfinance where, as the new CGAP Focus Note finds, institutions struggle to mobilize deposits and help their clients build assets.

Commentators will include Ray Boshara, Director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, Allyn Moushey, Poverty Analysis &… more

Our current experience of capitalism -- corporate, short-term and globalized -- is rapidly squandering our shared inheritances. Peter Barnes, Co-Founder and Former President of Working Assets Long Distance, a wireless, long distance and credit card company that links its products with donations to nonprofit groups, examines the dynamics of the market place in Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. Barnes argues that capitalism in its current form gives too much power to profit-maximizing corporations that deplete the public… more