From the “buy local” movement to public banking, we’re well on our way to a more democratic, cooperative, and people-centered economy.
Author: Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz is the author of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution, and the Lionel R. Bauman professor of political economy at the University of Maryland. He is co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative.
The question of how the ownership of capital should be structured in a democratic society was raised by none other than Margaret Thatcher’s authorized biographer.