What Common Wealth Think Tank does

Common Wealth is a UK-based, independent nonprofit policy think tank founded in 2019, operating with a team of approximately 16 staff and headquartered in London. Its core thesis centres on reimagining ownership structures as the mechanism for building an economy that works for everyone, with research spanning AI and technology, corporate power, energy, housing, work, finance and pensions, industrial strategy, defence, and macroeconomics. The organization produces a portfolio of policy publications (reports, briefings, interactive content) made freely available through its website, and operates a network of branded sub-initiatives: the Green Planning Commission (a UK-US multi-year green planning initiative), the Transition Security Project (research on military-industrial complexes), the Centre for Democratising Work (research hub on British work), The Break Down (climate political-economy interviews), Forces of Production (a US-economy newsletter), Who Owns Britain? (an interactive research tool on privatisation), and Perspectives (a reflections series).

Distribution is intentionally broad and open: all research outputs are free to access, with audience reach built through a Substack newsletter and organic social media presence on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Bluesky, and TikTok. Geographically, the organization publishes both UK-tagged and US-tagged content, indicating a dual-jurisdiction remit. Business model is nonprofit and donor-supported, evidenced by a 'Support Us' page on the website; no pricing, subscription fees, paid consulting, or commercial revenue stream is disclosed. As of the input data, no funding round totals, donor identities, grant values, or audited financials are public.

Name

Common Wealth Think Tank

Legal name

Common Wealth Think Tank

Website

https://common-wealth.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Common Wealth is a UK-based nonprofit think tank that researches ownership structures and economic inequality, publishing free reports, briefings, and interactive tools for policymakers, researchers, journalists, and the public across UK and US topics.

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Product category

Policy Research and Think Tank Services

NAICS

Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (54191)

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Think Tanks, Policy Research & Public Policy Institutes (BPAGAFAO)

Keywords

• Policy research services
• Economic policy analysis
• Interactive data visualization
• Ownership reform research
• Political economy research

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

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Core offering

Common Wealth Think Tank produces independent policy research, briefings, reports, and interactive data visualisations focused on ownership structures, economic inequality, and corporate power. It operates a portfolio of themed research initiatives (Green Planning Commission, Transition Security Project, Centre for Democratising Work, The Break Down, Forces of Production, Perspectives) and an interactive platform 'Who Owns Britain?' investigating privatisation. All research outputs are distributed free of charge to policymakers, researchers, journalists, and the public.

Product overview

Common Wealth Think Tank is a policy research organization reimagining ownership to build an economy that works for everyone. Their portfolio consists primarily of research publications (Reports, Briefings, Interactive content) organized around thematic initiatives including the Green Planning Commission, Centre for Democratising Work, Transition Security Project, and various publication series like Perspectives, The Break Down, and Forces of Production. The organization offers interactive research tools such as 'Who Owns Britain?' alongside traditional publication formats covering topics spanning AI & Tech, Community, Corporate Power, Defence, Energy, Finance & Pensions, Fossil Fuels, Health & Care, Housing & Land, Industrial Strategy, Macroeconomics, Politics, Trade & Geopolitics, Transport, Utilities, and Work.

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Brands

• Green Planning Commission: A multi-year initiative uniting leading thinkers and actors in policy and politics from across the UK and the US.
• Transition Security Project
• Centre for Democratising Work
• The Break Down
• Forces of Production
• Who Owns Britain?
• Perspectives

Products and services

• Who Owns Britain? An interactive platform investigating ownership and the radical experiment of privatisation in Britain, exploring how these have transformed society and reshaped lives. Targeted at policymakers, researchers, journalists, and the general public interested in UK economic and political reform.
• Green Planning Commission A multi-year research initiative uniting leading thinkers and actors in policy and politics from across the UK and the US to advance green planning. Targeted at policymakers, political actors, and policy researchers engaged in climate and industrial strategy.
• Transition Security Project A research centre investigating military industrial complexes as economic, climate, and geopolitical threats. Targeted at defence, climate, and geopolitical policy researchers and journalists.
• Centre for Democratising Work A research hub exploring work in contemporary Britain, examining how ownership and democratic control intersect with labour and employment. Targeted at labour policy researchers, trade unions, and policymakers.
• Perspectives A publication series offering reflections and insights on the biggest economic and political stories. Targeted at engaged readers, journalists, and policy commentators.
• The Break Down A series of interviews and essays focused on the political economy of the climate crisis. Targeted at climate journalists, academics, and engaged members of the public.
• Forces of Production A monthly newsletter tracking the US economy through government data, published on Substack. Targeted at US-focused policy researchers, economists, journalists, and engaged readers.

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Direct peers

• DEMOS: UK cross-party think tank producing research on economic, social, and political reform. Comparable in being a UK-based research outfit publishing across multiple policy domains for broad public audiences.
• New Economics Foundation (NEF): UK think tank reimagining the economy around people and planet — directly comparable focus on economic inequality, ownership models, and alternative economic structures with similarly distributed research outputs.
• Roosevelt Institute: US economic think tank focused on corporate power, inequality, and democratic economy — directly comparable in its framing of ownership and corporate power as drivers of economic outcomes, with a comparable research-and-publications approach.
• Resolution Foundation: UK think tank focused on living standards, inequality, and economic policy — closely aligned with Common Wealth's focus on ownership, work, and economic reform, and using a similar research-publication-and-briefings distribution approach.
• Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET): Global think tank challenging orthodox economic thinking and supporting heterodox research on inequality, power, and economic structure — a strong international peer given Common Wealth's ownership-framing approach.
• Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR): The UK's leading progressive think tank producing policy research across economic inequality, climate, and public services. Directly comparable in mission, UK-based progressive orientation, and research-publication model, though significantly larger.
• Political Economy Research Institute (PERI): US research institute producing economic research on inequality, labour, and environmental policy — comparable academic-style research output model addressing overlapping themes of corporate power and economic reform.
• Smith Institute: UK think tank focused on progressive economic and social policy research — similar size and operating model, with comparable focus on economic reform and policy-oriented outputs.

Broad incumbents

• Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR): Larger, established European economic policy research network — operates in adjacent economic policy research territory with broader scope and a much larger institutional footprint than Common Wealth.
• Tony Blair Institute for Global Change: Major UK-headquartered policy organisation operating globally across economic and political reform themes — overlaps with Common Wealth's transatlantic policy ambition but with significantly greater scale and government-adjacent positioning.

Market position

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Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Cmmonwealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/common-wealth-think-tank
• Instagraminstagram.com/cmmonwealth
• TikToktiktok.com/@cmmonwealth

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