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America Beyond Capitalism

Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

By Gar Alperovitz

Publisher:

The Democracy Collaborative Press and Dollars & Sense

Date of publication:

November 2011—NOW AVAILABLE!

Pages:

370

ISBN:

978-0-9847857-0-4

Price:

$16.95

• Praise
• Table of Contents

• Foreword to the Second Edition v
• Introduction to the Second Edition ix
• Preface to the First Edition xxxix
• Acknowledgements xlvii
• Introduction to the First Edition 1
• Part I: The Pluralist Commonwealth: Equality, Liberty, Democracy 9
  • 1. Equality: Beyond Tax-and-Spend 14
  • 2. Liberty: Money, Time, and Real Freedom of Choice 28
  • 3. Democracy: From the Ground Up 42
  • 4. Democracy: Inequality and Giant Corporations 50
  • 5. Democracy: Is a Continent Too Large? 63
  • 6. The Pluralist Commonwealth 70
• Part II: The Democratization of Wealth 79
  • 7. A Direct Stake In Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms 81
  • 8. Enterprising Cities: Right, Left, and Center 90
  • 9. Building Community: Neighborhoods and Nonprofits with a Mission 99
  • 10. State and National Innovators 110
  • 11. Coda: The Democratization of Wealth and the Era of Deepening Fiscal Crisis 119
• Part III: Local Democracy and Regional Decentralization 123
  • 12. Is Local Democracy Possible in the Global Era? 125
  • 13. Community, the Environment, and the “Nonsexist City” 137
  • 14. The Regional Restructuring of the American Continent 152
• Part IV: Twenty-First-Century Populism 167
  • 15. The Logic of Long-Term Political Refocusing 169
  • 16. Social Security, Retirement, and Health Care 182
  • 17. A Twenty-Five-Hour Week? 197
  • 18. Beyond Super-Elites and Conspicuous Consumption: Real Ecological Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century 214
  • 19. Coda: Twenty-First-Century Populism 226
• Part V: Toward a Morally Coherent Politics 229
• Conclusion: The Challenge of the Era of Technological Abundance 232
• Notes 241
• Index 317