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"This book offers by far the most serious, intellectually grounded strategy for system-changing yet to appear. It could be the most important movement-building book of the new century..."
—Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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"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… A marvelous book…I recommend it all the time"
—Noam Chomsky
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Books by Gar Alperovitz
What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
(Chelsea Green Publishing, Spring 2013)
—James Gustave Speth, author of America the Possible
—Grace Lee Boggs, author of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
(Democracy Collaborative Press and Dollars & Sense, 2011)
A marvelous book [...] I recommend it all the time.
– Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Careful, well-researched, and practical alternative progressives have been seeking.
– Juliet Schor, author of The Overspent American
One of the most important books of the decade.
– Jeffrey Hollender, founder of Seventh Generation and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council
Unjust Deserts: Wealth and Equality in the Knowledge Economy
With Lew Daly
(The New Press, 2008)
Rarely do the facts of the matter so illuminate a moral truth as they do in Unjust Deserts. Quite simply, this book changes the fundamental terms of reference for future debates about inequality. It convincingly demonstrates that knowledge is the primary source of our national wealth, with or without the elites at the top who claim the lion’s share. [...] Alperovitz and Daly help us understand what this reality means, and the values at stake, in a nation growing more unequal with each passing day. This book opens an extraordinary new vista on the moral bankruptcy of our second Gilded Age.
—Bill Moyers
This deeply informed and carefully argued study of the social and historical factors that enter into creative achievement formulates issues of entitlement in ways that have far-reaching implications for a just social order.
—Noam Chomsky
Making a Place for Community
With David Imbroscio and Thad Williamson
(Routledge, 2002)
An indispensable primer for the new century.
—From the forward by Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad v. McWorld
Comprehensive, balanced, and well documented, Making a Place for Community is a monumental collection of valuable research, experience, data and policy guidance on building strong local economies. Essential reading for every city, county and state official and engaged citizen and an invaluable reference source to which they will return for years to come.”
—David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World
The restoration of American democracy will begin—if it begins at all—in the lives of communities, not Washington DC or state capitals. Making a Place for Community provides an illuminating and rigorous tour of the existing landscape of community life and the ongoing efforts to foster development. It is a terrific catalogue of promising ideas.
—William Greider, author of One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
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