Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics. This item is unavailable.Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics

Parecomic is a graphic novel about something that affects everyone: the economic system in which humanity is forced to live, what's wrong with it and how people might be able to change it for the better. Written by Sean Michael Wilson and drawn by Carl Thompson, Parecomic is about Michael Albert - the visionary behind 'participatory economics' - and his life's struggle as a left-wing activist in the United States. Proposed as an alternative to capitalism, participatory economics (parecon, for short) values equity, solidarity, diversity and self-management.

SEAN MICHAEL WILSON is a comic book writer from Scotland, currently based in Japan, who has written fourteen books of comics and manga. His work includes a version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (with artist Mike Collins); Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Oscar Wilde's A Canterville Ghost; The Japanese Drawing Room (with RING horror manga artist Sakura Mizuki); and the documentary book Iraq: Operation Corporate Takeover (with artist Lee O'Connor).

CARL THOMPSON is a cartoonist based in Minneapolis. A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, he has worked with writer Sean Michael Wilson on the political comic strip "Green Benches," published monthly in the British magazine Blue and Green Tomorrow.