America Beyond Capitalism

Posted by on November 27, 2011

Gar Alperovitz’s America Beyond Capitalism, reissued with new introduction and a foreword by James Gustave Speth, is a blueprint for a new economy, rooted in communities and a decentralized vision of a sustainable and truly democratic future.  Alperovitz, co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, shows how thousands of local experiments across the country are rising to meet the economic and ecological challenges of our era, laying the foundation for a new system more attuned to the needs of people and planet, and not just profit.

“Gar Alperovitz is that rare public intellectual who digs beneath the veneer of safe assumptions covering our national economic and political life and asks: what’s really going on here? And how can we Americans do better?”
-from the new foreword by James Gustave Speth

“America Beyond Capitalism is one of the most important books of the decade. Alperovitz provides an exceptionally fresh and insightful perspective on the challenges that plague our economy, environment and society while providing brilliant and practical solutions that we must embrace and put to work to seize a brighter future.”
-Jeffrey Hollender, founder of Seventh Generation and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council.

For more information and to order, visit http://garalperovitz.com/abc