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    Will Ruddick is the founder and director of Grassroots Economics, a non-profit foundation that seeks to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future. After completing graduate school researching high energy physics as a collaboration member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he found his passion in alternative economics and development work which brought him to Kenya. Since 2008 Will has lived in East Africa and managed several successful development programs in environment, food security and economic development.

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    Corvées: commons practices in ancient and modern France

    Corvées: commons practices in ancient and modern France
    Will Ruddick • 25-Jun-2024

    Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics talks about the French mutual aid tradition of Corvées. Read more

    Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

    Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics
    Will Ruddick • 18-Apr-2021

    I’d like to introduce Will Ruddick, who set up the Grassroots Economics Foundation in Kenya around ten years ago, that runs a very successful mutual credit network (called the Sarafu Network) there. Read more

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