America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
- ISBN-10
- 0984785701
- ISBN-13
- 9780984785704
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 321
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Democracy Collaborative Pres
- Author
- Gar Alperovitz
Description
America Beyond Capitalism is a book whose time has come. Gar Alperovitz's expert diagnosis of the long-term structural crisis of the American economic and political system is accompanied by detailed, practical answers to the problems we face as a society. Unlike many books that reserve a few pages of a concluding chapter to offer generalized, tentative solutions, Alperovitz marshals years of research into emerging "new economy" strategies to present a comprehensive picture of practical bottom-up efforts currently underway in thousands of communities across the United States. All democratize wealth and empower communities, not corporations: worker-ownership, cooperatives, community land trusts, social enterprises, along with many supporting municipal, state and longer term federal strategies as well. America Beyond Capitalism is a call to arms, an eminently practical roadmap for laying foundations to change a faltering system that increasingly fails to sustain the great American values of equality, liberty and meaningful democracy.
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Other editions
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- 2005
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Wiley
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