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  • America Beyond Capitalism

    Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

    by Gar Alperovitz ...
    "Be prepared for a mind-opening experience."-The Christian Century"Highly readable; excellent for students. . . . A tonic and eye-opener for anyone who wants a politics that works."-Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"America Beyond Capitalism comes at a critical time in our history-when we all know our system isn't working but we are not sure ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Possibility of Profound Change in America

    by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Gar Alperovitz believes that we are at a turning point in American history, in which systemic economic and environmental issues will be at the forefront of public interest. According to Alperovitz, people are sensing that, in the face of political and ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want?

    by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.In this lecture, Gar Alperovitz starts to formulate a response to the simple yet unnerving question: "what do you want?" He argues that the decay of the labor movement in the United States calls for new forms of progressive politics and systemic ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

    by Gar Alperovitz ...
    With a new preface by the authorControversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold War, an event that was largely responsible for the evolution of post-World War II American politics and culture. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • What Then Must We Do?

    Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

    by Gar Alperovitz ...
    Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming.But just what is this thing called a new economy, and how might it take shape in America? In What Then Must We Do? Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Distributing Our Technological Inheritance

    by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance, Gar Alperovitz then constructs a philosophical argument for broad distribution of the profits earned ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • Making a Place for Community

    Local Democracy in a Global Era

    by Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio, Gar Alperovitz ...
    When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence. Making a Place for Community argues that this death of ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle

    by Michael D. Yates ...
    A potent glimpse into the behind-the-scenes workplace control mechanisms which prevent workers from defending themselves from exploitationFor most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other – and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective workers offer their services to individual employers, each acting solely out of self-interest ... Read more

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  • The Complacent Class

    The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller"Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is the first thing I read every morning. And his brilliant new book, The Complacent Class, has been on my nightstand after I devoured it in one sitting. I am at round-the-clock Cowen saturation right now."--Malcolm GladwellSince Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American ... Read more

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  • Overheated

    How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back

    by Kate Aronoff ...
    This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of ... Read more

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  • Mutualism

    Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up

    by Sara Horowitz ...
    A profound look at the crisis of work and the collapse of the safety net, and a vision for a better way forward, rooted in America’s cooperative spirit, from the founder of the Freelancers Union“Read this essential book to see how we can and must build the future.”—Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedinMutualism: It’s not capitalism and it’s not socialism. It’s the future.The twentieth century ... Read more

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