{"product_id":"realizing-hope-life-beyond-capitalism-1842777211","title":"Realizing Hope: Life beyond Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1842777211\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Albert, Michael\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\"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.ReviewPraise 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 RoyAbout the AuthorMichael 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67945323725088,"sku":"NEW1842777211","price":11.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41mMFrCKbSL.jpg?v=1792802951","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/realizing-hope-life-beyond-capitalism-1842777211","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}