Posted by:
Steve Dubb
Book launch to take place at Bus Boys & Poets (14th & V), Wed., Dec. 7, 7pm
Gar Alperovitz, co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative (the host of Community-Wealth.org) and author of the newly reissued America Beyond Capitalism, will be joined by author and Public Citizen founder Ralph Nader; Democracy Collaborative Co-Founder and Executive Director Ted Howard; and John Cavanagh, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies, at a free forum and book launch event, which will take place Wednesday, December 7th, at 7pm at the 14th & V Streets (NW) location of Bus Boys and Poets. Cosponsored by the Democracy Collaborative, Teaching for Change, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the New Economy Working Group, the event promises to provoke a lively discussion of the present state of American politics and economics, as well as highlight some principles for building community wealth in the years to come.
Gar Alperovitz’s America Beyond Capitalism, reissued with an extensive new introduction and a new foreword by James Gustave Speth, provides a practical road map for a new economy, rooted in communities and rooted in a decentralized vision of a sustainable and truly democratic future.
Praise for the new edition of America Beyond Capitalism:
“Gar Alperovitz is that rare public intellectual who digs beneath the veneer of safe assumptions covering our national economic and political life and asks: what’s really going on here? And how can we Americans do better?”
-from the new foreword by James Gustave Speth
“America Beyond Capitalism is one of the most important books of the decade. Alperovitz provides an exceptionally fresh and insightful perspective on the challenges that plague our economy, environment and society while providing brilliant and practical solutions that we must embrace and put to work to seize a brighter future.”
-Jeffrey Hollender, founder of Seventh Generation and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council
“This challenging work succeeds in a task that may seem almost utopian in dark times suffused by anger, hopelessness, and despair: to provide concrete and feasible ways to reverse the ominous course of the past several decades and to open the way to a vibrant democracy with a sustainable economy that can satisfy human needs, not least the need to control one’s work and life. It is an impressive achievement, that should inspire thought and constructive action.”
- Noam Chomsky, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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