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by: Michael Albert
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.1
EAN: 9781842777213
ISBN: 1842777211
Label: Zed Books
Manufacturer: Zed Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 04, 2006
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date: February 16, 2006
Sales Rank: 274974
Studio: Zed Books
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'What is the alternative to capitalist globalization?' is a question challenging activists around the world. Michael Albert has wrestled with this question for many years, and his answer has captured the imagination of many. Participatory Economics--'Parecon' for short--is Albert's proposal for an economic system which offers a real alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity. In this ambitious new book, Albert goes further. Realizing Hope offers a vision of how whole areas of life might be transformed in a post-capitalist society, one where communities rather than profits are placed firmly at the center.
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Rating:  - Skirts the issues
Michael Albert's "Realizing Hope" builds on his earlier envisionings of Parecon, or Participatory Economics, a strongly egalitarian and democratic social structure (see: Parecon: Life After Capitalism). It is necessary to have read the above book before reading this one, since most of the argumentation and presentation concerning Parecon itself is missing here. Instead, Albert's book seems to be mainly aimed at refuting some critiques and dispelling some doubts about his vision, and in engaging ... Read More
Rating:  - An unrealistic utopia, to this blue-collar liberal.
I ordered this book when I saw the first half of a two part program on PBS by the author, Michael Albert, but missed the second half. He spoke about how liberals (and liberal organizations) often research and describe problems of governance or poverty, etc., but the way we often try to fix these problems is by reiterating what they are, over and over again, accomplishing little. Thus we are at a disadvantage to the operators of the politics of greed, in which the ends justify the means, and self ... Read More
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