America beyond capitalism : reclaiming our wealth, our liberty, and our democracy /
Alperovitz, Gar.
America beyond capitalism : reclaiming our wealth, our liberty, and our democracy / Gar Alperovitz ; [with a new forward by James Gustave Speth]. - 2nd ed. - Boston, MA : Democracy Collaborative Press/Dollars and Sense, ©2011. - xlix, 321 p. ; 22 cm.
Equality : beyond tax-and-spend -- Liberty : money, time and real freedom of choice -- Democracy : from the ground up -- Democracy : inequality and giant corporations -- Democracy : is a continent too large? -- The pluralist commonwealth -- A direct stake in economic life : worker-owned firms -- Enterprising cities : right, left, and center -- Building community : neighborhoods and nonprofits with a mission -- State and national innovators -- Coda: The democratization of wealth and the era of deepening fiscal crisis -- Is local democracy possible in the global era? -- Community, the environment and the "nonsexist city" -- The regional restructuring of the American continent -- The logic of long-term political refocusing -- Social security, retirement, and health care -- A twenty-five-hour week? -- Beyond super-elites and conspicuous consumption : real ecological sustainability in the twenty-first century -- Coda: Twenty-first-century populism -- Conclusion: the challenge of the era of technological abundance.
9780984785704 (pbk.)
Democracia--Estados Unidos.
Distribución del ingreso--Estados Unidos.
Democracy--United States.
Income distribution--United States.
Wealth--United States.
JK 1726 / A456a 2011
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America beyond capitalism : reclaiming our wealth, our liberty, and our democracy / Gar Alperovitz ; [with a new forward by James Gustave Speth]. - 2nd ed. - Boston, MA : Democracy Collaborative Press/Dollars and Sense, ©2011. - xlix, 321 p. ; 22 cm.
Equality : beyond tax-and-spend -- Liberty : money, time and real freedom of choice -- Democracy : from the ground up -- Democracy : inequality and giant corporations -- Democracy : is a continent too large? -- The pluralist commonwealth -- A direct stake in economic life : worker-owned firms -- Enterprising cities : right, left, and center -- Building community : neighborhoods and nonprofits with a mission -- State and national innovators -- Coda: The democratization of wealth and the era of deepening fiscal crisis -- Is local democracy possible in the global era? -- Community, the environment and the "nonsexist city" -- The regional restructuring of the American continent -- The logic of long-term political refocusing -- Social security, retirement, and health care -- A twenty-five-hour week? -- Beyond super-elites and conspicuous consumption : real ecological sustainability in the twenty-first century -- Coda: Twenty-first-century populism -- Conclusion: the challenge of the era of technological abundance.
9780984785704 (pbk.)
Democracia--Estados Unidos.
Distribución del ingreso--Estados Unidos.
Democracy--United States.
Income distribution--United States.
Wealth--United States.
JK 1726 / A456a 2011
321.8