Already thinking positively about economic alternatives | Letters

Tom Kibasi on proposals for a 'digital commons' and increasing worker ownership, Andy Chapman on Common Good Balance Sheets, and Peter Taylor-Gooby on better education, more training and decent cheap childcare

In introducing his welcome new series on economic alternatives, Aditya Chakrabortty rightly castigates those who continue to promote the failed economic ideas of the past (It's time to take on the zombies, 17 January). But he underestimates the extent to which a vibrant network of thinktanks, academics, campaigning and community organisations are now "rethinking capitalism" in pursuit of a society fit for the future.

Here at IPPR we are working on everything from new approaches to macroeconomic policy to the proper taxation of wealth, from proposals for a "digital commons" to devolved economic governance, from increasing worker ownership to a new framework for environmental policy.

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