Increasingly larger concentrations of economic power endanger democracy, the constitutional state, as well as the ecological and social foundations of life. How we live – what we eat, how we work, what we learn and recognize, how we communicate, and which air we breathe – is determined more and more by large corporations.
It is said that this new unfreedom is unavoidable. "There is no alternative!" The growing power of worldwide conglomerates is justified today as in former times feudalism and state socialism. Concentrations of economic power are presented as inevitable.
We are convinced: There are alternatives! The existing structures of economic power can be overcome. Social Science has to make its contribution to this cause as the thinkers in the Enlightenment worked against the economic and political-economic interests of their own age.
We founded Deconcentration International to develop a renaissance of "political economy." Deconcentration International works at creating concepts, which prevent and dismantel economic power. We address as well the scientific as the general public.
The concentration of economic power is made possible by numerous power-supporting regulations in constitutions and individual laws. What is created by politics can also be abolished by politics.