According to author Nathan Schneider, “the origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback”: cooperatives.
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Grocery Story deconstructs the food retail sector and the shadows cast by corporate giants, and makes the case for food co-ops as an alternative. It shows how co-ops spur the creation of local food-based economies and enhance low-income food access.
“In Open; The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital economist Kimberly Clausing faces down the critics from both sides. She demonstrates in this vivid and compelling account that open economies are a force for good, not least in helping the most vulnerable.”
“In An Economy of Well-being, author Mark Anielski presents a practical guide for building a new economy of well-being to help communities and nations become more flourishing and happier places to live.”
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“From Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz, People, Power and Profits is an account of the dangers of free market fundamentalism that reveals what has gone so wrong, but also shows us a way out.”
“Economics for Humans argues against the well-ingrained notion that economics is immune to moral values and distant from human relationships.”
“Democracy and Prosperity, written by two of the world’s leading political economists, argues that advanced democracies are resilient, and their enduring historical relationship with capitalism has been mutually beneficial.”
“This book shows that data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things.”
The Third Pillar offers up a big-picture framework for understanding how these three forces–the state, markets, and our communities–interact, why things begin to break down, and how we can find our way back to a more secure and stable plane.
The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor, published by the libertarian Cato Institute, “energetically challenges the conventional wisdom of both the right and the left that underlies much of the contemporary debate over poverty and welfare policy.”
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