Realizing Hope Life Beyond Capitalism - Michael Albert

Release date: February 16, 2006

"What is the alternative to capitalist globalization?" is a question challenging activists around the world. Michael Albert has wrestled with this question for many years, and his answer has captured the imagination of many. Participatory Economics--"Parecon" for short--is Albert's proposal for an economic system which offers a real alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity. In this ambitious new book, Albert goes further. Realizing Hope offers a vision of how whole areas of life might be transformed in a post-capitalist society, one where communities rather than profits are placed firmly at the center.


Review

Praise for Parecon: Life After Capitalism:
"Michael Albert is an important thinker who takes us beyond radical denunciations and pretentious 'analysis' to a thoughtful, profound meditation on what a good society can be like."--Howard Zinn

"A great many activists and concerned people ask, quite rightly, what alternative form of social organization can be imagined that might overcome the grave flaws--often real crimes--of contemporary society in more far-reaching ways than short-term reform. Parecon is the most serious effort I know to provide a very detailed possible answer to some of these questions, crucial ones, based on serious thought and careful analysis."--Noam Chomsky

"Capitalism not working for you? Michael Albert may be tilting at windmills, but readers are flocking to his book on a system to spread the wealth and work."--Los Angeles Times

"Parecon is a brave argument for . . . a much needed--more equitable, democratic, participatory--alternative economic vision."--Arundhati Roy
"Michael Albert has offered an alternative system of participatory economics to end the dehumanizing failures and injustices of free market capitalism. It is a compelling book for our times."--Ben H. Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly

"Capitalism not working for you? Michael Albert may be tilting at windmills, but readers are flocking to his book on a system to spread the wealth and work."--Los Angeles Times

"Parecon is a brave argument for . . . a much needed--more equitable, democratic, participatory--alternative economic vision."--Arundhati Roy
About the Author
Michael Albert co-founded South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet where he continues to work. He is the author of seventeen books, most recently Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2004).



Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Zed Books (February 16, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1842777211
ISBN-13: 978-1842777213