{"product_id":"9780984785704","title":"America Beyond Capitalism","description":"2011 edition, with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by James Gustave Speth\u003cp\u003eAs discontent with the economic and political status quo mounts in the wake of the \"great recession\", America Beyond Capitalism is a book whose time has come. Gar Alperovitz's expert diagnosis of the long-term structural crisis of the American economic and political system is accompanied by detailed, practical answers to the problems we face as a society. Unlike many books that reserve a few pages of a concluding chapter to offer generalized, tentative solutions, Alperovitz marshals years of research into emerging \"new economy\" strategies to present a comprehensive picture of practical bottom-up efforts currently underway in thousands of communities across the United States. All democratize wealth and empower communities, not corporations: worker-ownership, cooperatives, community land trusts, social enterprises, along with many supporting municipal, state and longer term federal strategies as well. America Beyond Capitalism is a call to arms, an eminently practical roadmap for laying foundations to change a faltering system that increasingly fails to sustain the great American values of equality, liberty and meaningful democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of numerous books, including Unjust Deserts (with Lew Daly), Making a Place For Community (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio), Rebuilding America (with Jeff Faux) and, in connection with foreign policy, Atomic Diplomacy and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Democracy Collaborative","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48231701610736,"sku":"9780984785704","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984785704_p0.jpg?v=1763889689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984785704","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}