Parecon : Life After Capitalism (Hardcover)

from sbnicar

I have very mixed feelings about this book. There are many critiques of capitalism out there, but very few authors offer alternative visions. So Michael Albert is to be applauded for formulating such a vision and attempting to present it to a wider audience. The problem is that, as the previous r...

from Daedalus

I bought this book hoping to be blown away (rave reviews, my own attitudes toward Capitalism, etc.). I left the reading thoroughly underwhelmed. Albert, normally a decent writer, is a bad-to-moderate writer at best with this effort. And if Chomsky is right, that this "is the most serious effort I...

from AndrewBlackman

This is not the most interesting book I have read lately, but it is one of the most important. It deals with the topics so often left vague in left-wing literature: the nitty-gritty of how a non-capitalist economy would actually allocate goods and services, balance supply and demand, avoid gluts ...