"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 PapersAvailable now from Chelsea Green Publishing
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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
"Highly readable; excellent for students…. A tonic and eye-opener for anyone who wants a politics that works."
—Jane Mansbridge, President-Elect, American Political Science Association, Adams Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"This book opens an extraordinary new vista on the moral bankruptcy of our second Gilded Age."
—Bill MoyersRecently Posted
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- Read Gar’s new essay, “Building a Democratic Economy: Sketch of a Pluralist Commonwealth”
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- Democratic Ownership and the Pluralist Commonwealth: The Creation of an Idea Whose Time Has Come
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- Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth
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- Gar Alperovitz, co-founder, Democracy Collaborative, and co-chair, The Next System Project, speaks with Diane Horn about buying out the fossil fuel industry to address climate change
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Upcoming speaking events
The Democracy Convention @ Madison College
August 7, 2013 – August 8, 2013 all-day
A new movement — a democracy movement — was born in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999. This movement’s early years were not easy. Pro-democracy [...]
73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: “Capitalism in Question”
August 11, 2013 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Second Annual Summer Institute in New Economics @ Wingspread Retreat Center
August 12, 2013 – August 18, 2013 all-day
Dire ecological news and the failures of the global economy are fuelling interest in a “new economics” grounded in principles of ecological sustainability, the democratization [...]
Weaver Street Market 25th Anniversary Meeting
September 9, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
New Economic Strategies for Progressive Change: A Conversation with Economist Gar Alperovitz and MD Senator Jamie Raskin @ Silver Spring Civic Building
September 11, 2013 @ 7:15 pm
Sponsored by Progressive Neighbors and co-sponsored by the Montgomery County Young Democrats.
Gar Alperovitz presents “What Then Must We Do?” at the Baltimore Book Festival @ Baltimore Book Festival
September 29, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
In conversation with Lester Spence and Jamie Raskin, and moderated by Marc Steiner. Co-sponsored by Red Emma’s Radical Bookfair Pavilion.
University of Massachusetts Amherst @ Gordon Hall
October 10, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
Public lecture organized by PERI (Political Economy Research Institute).
Schumacher Center for a New Economics @ John Dewey Academy at Searles Castle
October 11, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health @ Hampton House auditorium
November 21, 2013 @ 12:00 pm