Gar Alperovitz | America Beyond Capitalism

The new understandings that the Internet increasingly underscores are moral wild cards.

In this installment of America Beyond Capitalism, Gar Alperovitz considers the changes in technology and social organization in the US from 1790 to the present.

The various present impediments to progressive reform are likely to foster a radicalized politics, a twenty-first century populism that promises individual fulfillment in the context of community.

Although there is dispute about the precise dimensions of the problem, prudence alone suggests the importance of confronting basic ecological limits.

As we have seen, hours worked per week and per year have increased very substantially for large numbers of Americans in recent years.

Americans committed to a renewal of democracy are likely to discover this can only be meaningfully achieved in units of scale smaller than a continent.

In this chapter, Gar Alperovitz charts the varied interconnections between community economic and environmental stability, gender-friendly community design and land ownership institutions.

Can Americans ever really take charge of their common community life, given the realities of the modern political economy?

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Capital can and should be accumulated and managed in ways that provide individual citizens with an income stream from publicly backed investments.