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04.28: Gar Alperovitz
2013-03-15 02:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, and more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming. In What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution (Chelsea Green), Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He calls for an evolution, not a revolution, out of the old system and into the new. That new system would democratize the ownership of wealth, strengthen communities in diverse ways, and be governed by policies and institutions sophisticated enough to manage a large-scale, powerful economy. For the growing group of Americans pacing at the edge of confidence in the old system or already among its detractors, What Then Must We Do? offers an elegant solution for moving from anger to strategy. This event is sponsored by Portland State University's Planning Club.
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