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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gar Alperovitz |
OCLC Number: | 70054730 |
Notes: | Originally published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2005. |
Description: | 1 audio disc ; 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Pluralist commonwealth, equality, liberty, democracy: 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?; Pluralist commonwealth -- Democratization of wealth: 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 --Local democracy and regional decentralization: Is local democracy possible in the global era?; Community, the environment, and the "nonsexist city"; Regional restructuring of the American continent -- Twenty-first-century populism: Logic of long-term political refocusing; Social security, retirement, and health care; Twenty-five-hour week? Beyond super-elites and conspicuous consumption, real ecological sustainability in the twenty-first-century; Coda, twenty-first-century populism -- Toward a morally coherent politics -- Challenge of the era of technological abundance. |
Responsibility: | Gar Alperovitz. |
Abstract:
This book argues that the only way for the United States to once again honor its great historic values - above all equality, liberty, and meaningful democracy - is to build forrward to achieve what amounts to systemic change ... This [book] offer an introduction to critical ideas about what it takes to sustain equality, liberty, and democracy - the kind of ideas that in recent years modern political and economic theorists have been developing and refining in their books and articles.-Pref. This book takes us outside the confines of orthodox thinking, imagines a new way of living together, and then brings that vision back into reality with a set of eminently practical ideas that promise a truly democratic society.-Back cover.
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