Gar Alperovitz | America Beyond Capitalism

The neighborhood-based Community Development Corporation (CDC) grew out of the need to combine the community-serving mission of a nonprofit organization with the wealth-building and ownership capacities of an economic …

The basic principle at work in municipally owned real estate development is that appreciation of land should be turned to public advantage. In many communities, Community Land Trusts (CLTs) …

The obvious question is: why aren't large numbers of businesses organized on this principle?

Over time, a fundamental shift in the ownership of wealth would slowly move the nation as a whole toward greater equality directly - through, for instance, worker-owned enterprises; and …

Is it really feasible - in systemic and foundational terms - to sustain equality, liberty, and democracy in a very large-scale, centrally governed continental system that spans almost three …

Intimately related to economic inequality is the matter of time - in this case as it concerns democracy as well as liberty

Is it possible to have national Democracy with a Big D if you do not have real local democracy with a small d, at the level where people live, …

New proposals to broaden the ownership of wealth are increasingly commonplace - and given the growing discontent, appear all but certain to continue to grow in number and refinement.

The old assumption that the United States would move inevitably in the direction of ever greater equality now appears strange, even unreal.

Political-economic systems come and go over time, and the current American system is probably not the be-all and end-all of world development.