Professor James Gustave Speth (3 results)

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Yale University Press Pub Date: 3/10/2009 Binding: Paperback Pages: 320 First edition.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 179 p. Contains: Illustrations. Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies. Audience: General/trade. some wear on the cover at the edges, text is clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 321 pages. 2011 edition, with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by Jam es Gustave Speth As 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 cr isis of the American economic and political system is accompanied by detailed, p ractical answers to the problems we face as a society. Unlike many books that re serve a few pages of a concluding chapter to offer generalized, tentative soluti ons, Alperovitz marshals years of research into emerging new economy strategie s to present a comprehensive picture of practical bottom-up efforts currently un derway in thousands of communities across the United States. All democratize wea lth and empower communities, not corporations: worker-ownership, cooperatives, c ommunity 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 o f equality, liberty and meaningful democracy. Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Ba uman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of numerous books, including U njust Deserts (with Lew Daly), Making a Place For Community (with Thad Williamso n and David Imbroscio), Rebuilding America (with Jeff Faux) and, in connection w ith foreign policy, Atomic Diplomacy and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.…