Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative, a national R&D lab for a democratic economy. She was named by Fast Company as one of "15 people at the forefront of reinventing our economic system." Her classic book, The Divine Right of Capital, is credited by Jay Coen Gilbert, B Lab co-founder, as having "inspired the B Corp movement." Her subsequent books, Owning Our Future and The Making of a Democratic Economy, won awards and acclaim. Formerly, Marjorie was a fellow at Tellus Institute, where she cofounded Corporation 20/20, after co-founding and editing Business Ethics magazine.
“Marjorie Kelly has the rare ability to combine her decades of
business-insider insight with the imagination and conviction to
reinvent the future. Setting out entrenched systemic problems, she
lucidly and compellingly counters them with inspiring systemic
solutions. If you want to understand the economy we’ve inherited
and create an economy worth bequeathing to our children, read this
book.”
—Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics
“I love this book. As Marjorie Kelly says in this brilliant work,
our public discourse does little to question the core assumptions
of our economy. Kelly explodes these as misleading myths. We badly
need to build a future based on a new and transformative economic
vision, and I cannot think of a better place to start than Kelly’s
book. Highly recommended.”
—James Gustave Speth, author of America the Possible; former Dean,
Yale School of the Environment; and cofounder of the Natural
Resources Defense Council
“I’m still reeling from this book. It’s splendid—a compelling
vision of an Economy for All and how far we must go to achieve it.
I predict that the term ‘wealth supremacy’ will replace ‘income
inequality.’ It’s way more expressive.”
—John Abrams, founder and President Emeritus, South Mountain
Company, and author of Companies We Keep
“Marjorie Kelly inspired the B Corp movement with The Divine Right
of Capital.”
—Jay Coen Gilbert, cofounder of B Lab
“The Divine Right of Capital was my matrix moment in unveiling
economic reality. In Wealth Supremacy, Kelly builds on that
classic—naming the invisible sickness of our time, the deep bias
that legitimizes the unsustainable extraction of wealth. She
describes this disease so clearly it can never be unseen.”
—Gideon Rosenblatt, former Microsoft executive and Steward, Token
Engineering Commons
“Marjorie Kelly invites us ‘to begin by seeing’—to view the real
world of capitalism where extraction and individualism reign. Her
book is a call to denaturalize the myths controlling our lives and
stop sleepwalking past the awful abuses of our times. The
democratic economy she describes is an inspiring—and
conceivable—future, but one where we must collectively awaken to
take action.”
—Ian MacFarlane, CEO, EA Engineering, Science, and Technology,
PBC
“Marjorie illuminates the perversion of the financial systems and
incentives we humans have built. And she does it in a way that
sneaks up on the reader. Reasonable, gracious, kind—making it
pretty darned hard to ignore the message and the inspiration she
offers.”
—Leslie Christian, Senior Investment Advisor, NorthStar Asset
Management, and former CEO, Portfolio 21 Investments
“What might it take for a wholesale reset of our obsession with and
idolization of extreme wealth, when it’s so clearly stealing the
future? It starts by naming it: Wealth Supremacy.”
—Willow Berzin, Chief Assembler, Coalition of Everyone
“The Divine Right of Capital was transformative to my thinking as
an entrepreneur: what is the purpose of any business if not to
improve the lives of everyone it touches? This was the spark that
ignited our decision to transfer ownership of Dansko to our
employees. Wealth Supremacy deepens our resolve to imagine a new
paradigm, reversing decades of extraction in Belize by giving the
land and its resources back to the people in trust and creating a
regenerative agribusiness to support it.”
—Mandy Cabot, founder of Dansko and cofounder and Director, Silk
Grass Farms, Belize
“‘Virtually all successful businesses end up in the maw of
finance,’ says Marjorie Kelly, who brilliantly explains
financialization and why its bloated form has become so destructive
for human well-being. She documents the myriad ways the owners and
managers of huge pools of capital skew power away from workers,
diverting the fruits of productivity to outrageous incomes for the
very few. She describes the terrifying prospect of finance
absorbing the natural world as a new ‘asset class’ of ecosystem
services. And then she lays out the possibilities for
transformation, for a new form of political economy that would
transfer wealth and power from the hands of the few to the control
of the many. It is a critically needed vision of a sane, humane,
ecological economy, built with practical examples that have the
potential to carry vision to reality.”
—Neva Goodwin, Distinguished Fellow, Economics in Context
Initiative, Boston University, and former Codirector, Global
Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
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