America Beyond Capitalism : Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

by Alperovitz, Gar

• ISBN13: 9780471790020
• ISBN10: 0471790028
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

-William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy

Author Biography

GAR ALPEROVITZ is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. Among his many books are The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and Rebuilding America (with Jeff Faux). His articles have appeared in Mother Jones, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and the Atlantic Monthly. He is also a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative.</p>

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART I: THE PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH: EQUALITY, LIBERTY, DEMOCRACY.

1. Equality: Beyond Tax-and-Spend.

2. Liberty: Money, Time, and Real Freedom of Choice.

3. Democracy: From the Ground Up.

4. Democracy: Inequality and Giant Corporations.

5. Democracy: Is a Continent Too Large?

6. The Pluralist commonwealth.

PART II: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF WEALTH.

7. A Direct Stake In Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms.

8. Enterprising Cities: Right, Left, and Center.

9. Building Community: Neighborhoods and Nonprofits with a Mission.

10. State and National Innovators.

11. Coda: The Democratization of Wealth and the Era of Deepening Fiscal Crisis.

PART III: LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND REGIONAL DECENTRALIZATION.

12. Is Local Democracy Possible in the Global Era?

13. Community, the Environment, and the "Nonsexist City."

14. The regional Restructuring of the American Continent.

PART IV: TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY POPULISM.

15. The Logic of Long-term Political Refocusing.

16. Social Security, retirement, and Health Care.

17. A Twenty-Five Hour Week?

18. Beyond Super-Elites and Conspicuous Consumption: Real Ecological Sustainability in the twenty-First Century.

19. Coda: Twenty-First-Century Populism.

PART V: TOWARD A MORALLY COHERENT POLITICS.

Conclusion: the Challenge of the Era of Technological Abundance.

Notes.

Index.