America Quote by Alissa Quart

Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is incentivized to…

— Fred Ehrsam

Whether you're raising money for a cause, a personal need, or a project, most crowdfunding sites center on you hitting up people you already…

— Charles Best

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices,…

— Geoff Mulgan

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized,

— Nouriel Roubini

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap…

— Clay Shirky

I can't see any possible future where there isn't a media site that isn't paired with crowdfunding.

— Jack Conte

The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary…

— Avi Lewis

People know crowdfunding, but they know it as something where one pays money for a cause or for products and so on. This is…

— Sonam Wangchuk

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and…

— Neil Abercrombie

Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private…

— James E. Faust

Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith