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Parecon: Life After Capitalism

by Michael Albert (Goodreads Author)

3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 · rating details · 204 ratings · 31 reviews

'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, 'Parecon' for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values...more

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Published May 17th 2004 by Verso (first published 2002)

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Aug 24, 2012 Miquixote rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: economics, non-fiction, 74a, academic, b, intellectual-value-5, enjoyment-value-2

outline of the idea of participatory economics. Is considered dry by some, being that it is theory...but a great one at that. I would like to see the idea of Parecon taken on by more writers. Albert is an even better speaker. Hear him talk if you can. If you are not comfortable taking on a book of this magnitude, and are still interested in the ideas, try starting with Albert's more manageable works like 'The Trajectory of Change'.

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Nov 05, 2007 Phil rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Let me begin by saying it's a terrible shame that Michael Albert couldn't write himself out of a wet paper bag on a humid day. This may one of the clunkiest most repetitious books I've ever read.

Having said that, the thing is actually worth reading. I don't know of many people who recommend reading the Bible or the Communist Manifesto for their clever page-turning plots either, but they do have their uses as texts.

In Parecon (participatory economics), Albert lays out a new economic vision for so...more Let me begin by saying it's a terrible shame that Michael Albert couldn't write himself out of a wet paper bag on a humid day. This may one of the clunkiest most repetitious books I've ever read.

Having said that, the thing is actually worth reading. I don't know of many people who recommend reading the Bible or the Communist Manifesto for their clever page-turning plots either, but they do have their uses as texts.

In Parecon (participatory economics), Albert lays out a new economic vision for society. Far from being some rehashed version of theoretical socialism or communism, this is a proposal for a new way to organize the economy of the nation and the world in a sustainable and equitable way. While everyone with a brain enjoys a good leftist or anarchist rant about how much capitalism sucks, corporations are evil, and the US government are corrupt fascists, this book actually goes beyond these complaints and presents a viable alternative to our economic system. It doesn't get into the political side of things, but instead focuses on how we can set up an economic system to replace the current unsustainable capitalist market economy that we've all been taught is the inevitable pinacle of man's development. With the environment and the economy literally collapsing around us as we speak it's a little late to begin the discussion of what a post-capitalist economy might look like, but perhaps we can use Albert's model as a starting point once the house of cards finally comes down.

The system of "participatory economics" that Albert proposes is presented in a very meticulous and logical way. He argues against capitalist market economies, socialist market economies, and centrally planned economies. He presents what to me are entirely original ideas about how to set up a system of working, consuming, and allocating that allow for equality, solidarity, fulfillment, sustainability, freedom, efficiency, and prosperity. The only "flaw" in his system is that the top 1% will have to give up their massive wealth and the top 20% will have to give up their inordinate influence and control over the bottom 80%. Luckily 80-90% of people won't mind this flaw.

Albert doesn't lay out literal "laws" of his new system. Rather, he presents core values that he sees as essential to the functioning of his new economic model. Once these values are embraced and put into place by society, the day-to-day structure of Parecon should organically follow. He proposes "balanced job complexes" to even out the "good" and "bad" jobs, while also rewarding more onerous jobs with higher pay. He also wants workers only to be remunerated for "effort and sacrifice," not for contribution, control, or luck. His system is also highly democratic, allowing each worker or participant to have a say in proportion to how much the given situation effects him or her. Consumption and allocation would also be regulated by democratic processes with everyone able to participate in a free and open exchange of ideas and proposals from the smallest social unit to the largest.

Albert addresses criticisms of Parecon with unassailable logic and tears down the many ridiculous myths about the "market" that we're constantly taught is holier than Jesus Christ himself. "Free market capitalism" is a sham and is *not* the only option we have as a society. There are other ways of living that don't pit us against one another in a struggle for survival, simultaneously destroying our planet. Equity, solidarity, efficiency, and self-management are *not* qualities of market capitalism as we are taught, but rather would be the primary products of a participatory economy if we had the courage to implement it.(less)

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Feb 22, 2013 Billie Pritchett rated it 3 of 5 stars

Michael Albert's Parecon is a book about participatory economics. Participatory economics is a concept that Albert developed to describe an economic system that would be democratically controlled. The basic idea is an economic system where people manage the work they do through workers counsels, and people manage their consumption of social goods through consumer counsels. People will receive payment in either money or goods for their level of effort and sacrifice and those who because of need c...more Michael Albert's Parecon is a book about participatory economics. Participatory economics is a concept that Albert developed to describe an economic system that would be democratically controlled. The basic idea is an economic system where people manage the work they do through workers counsels, and people manage their consumption of social goods through consumer counsels. People will receive payment in either money or goods for their level of effort and sacrifice and those who because of need cannot work will be provided for. People will be able to do work that they like, but some of the work, and perhaps the majority of it being work that nobody else would want but must nevertheless be done, will be shared.

In this system, then, people will work "job complexes," which might mean, for example, that a person is a teacher four days out of the week but must do custodial duties at the school one day out of the week. Whatever the case, the direct decision making will come from a democratic process of people voting in their respective counsels about the decisions that pertain to their lives.

These counsels could be nested inside of other counsels on up to the international level. For example, suppose that a teacher is a member of a school counsel of approximately 25-30 teachers as part of a workers counsel. She would make decisions with her co-teachers regarding how to teach and what educational goals they should have and so on. This teacher counsel could then be part of a larger teacher counsel represented by this and other smaller groups. And on up. These people could essentially keep pushing through bottom-up decisions in hopes that the higher levels would accept the policies.

Several smaller aspects are unclear to me about this economic system, and here is at least one I will mention. Suppose the teacher in her counsel is able to make decisions about her school and certain policies but because this school is not in the same community that she lives in, the decisions she makes in her consumption counsel pertain to her community but do not bear on the decisions she makes as a teacher. So, for instance, say she wants to deal with issues of school supplies or a better learning facility. Unless she is on a consumption counsel that would deal with these issues, she would have no say in the matter, right? Am I missing something. Anyway, this is difficult to write or talk about without reference to diagrams or something because it is all quite abstract.

I would like to invite the reader of this book to think about whether he or she values what Michael Albert would value in an economic system, and if so, find small pockets of freedom in which to exercise this kind of thinking. The reader could, for instance, look for opportunities for self-management and democratic planning in the workplace even in environments that otherwise do not seem conducive to self-management and democratic planning. If there is really an opportunity to have one's say and get to decide collectively with coworkers regarding some matter, one could take the opportunity. Again, this is one way in which a person could do his or her small part to implement the kind of change he or she would like to see with the economic system.

In my own view, at most what could be accomplished are small, incremental changes toward better exercise of economic freedom. I highly doubt, however, that the economic system will drastically change, and I am skeptical of grand schemes that wish to determine beforehand what the future is or ought to look like with regard economics or anything. Perhaps that is a lack of vision on my part, and if the reader should happen to see Albert's plan more perspicuously than I do, all the better for the reader.(less)

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Jan 28, 2012 Chris Watkins rated it 1 of 5 stars

The horror, the horror... not as abhorrent as Walden Two, but nonetheless describes a society where a significant part of our personal autonomy is traded for a socialist ideal. I do not want to live there.

I read the book when it came out, and had an online conversation with the author. I asked: What if I had an entrepreneurial idea, for a new product or service, that wasn't approved by a committee - is there any way I could carry that out with the hope that if my idea was good, I could benefit f...more

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Nov 12, 2011 Christopher rated it 3 of 5 stars

I have only given "3 stars" ... but you should nonethless absolutely read this book. Attempting to write concrete manifestos that address the question of 'what is to be done?' to address the socioeconomic injustices of capitalism is no easy matter. Indeed, this is one of the few books of which I am aware that attempts to do so quite as explicitly and in such an applied manner. There are many excellent suggestions here ... but most require development and elaboration. A full-on academic thesis ve...more

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Mar 06, 2012 Christopher rated it 1 of 5 stars

Michael Albert has, unfortunately, written a book called Parecon.
This incredibly dull writer has ambushed many previously enthusiastic readers with his detailed blueprint for a future society that rejects both state socialism and capitalism, unfortunately he forgets to tell us how to get rid of capitalism and has provided us with a shoddy and simplistic model for the replacement of a complex system that has created complex problems. Albert constructs his future paradise like a precocious, yet i...more

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May 05, 2009 Ian rated it 4 of 5 stars

Activists interested in social change need to read Michael Albert. He has some of the best insights about movement building that I've seen.
Trajectory of Change is a great little book about building large social movements, a good intro to his insights...
Life after capitalism is an attempt to describe what a society built on values of solidarity, self magagement and humanism would look like....essentially economic democracy...

Great read for anyone who realizes why markets and corporate division o...more

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Feb 13, 2013 Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: economics, leftism-marxism

Certainly a very intriguing idea, parecon. I admire Albert (and his accomplices) in daring to re-imagine another way of economic thinking beyond the standard forms of capitalism and socialism that have, for too long, been treated as the only options on the table. The end goals parecon sets out to meet are goals I certainly agree with.

Not everything was convincing for me though. My biggest issue with parecon is the immense amount of prediction planning, meetings, time and bureacracy it would requ...more

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May 07, 2008 Mita rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: your boss, mummy & daddy...

Fuih... buset dah!

Cukup bikin jidat berkerut2 euy bacanya

Buku ini awalnya menggambarkan mengenai bagaimana ekonomi dunia saaat ini yang berjalan dibawah sistem kapitalis melaui koorporasi2 internasional dan sistem2 perdagangan bebas serta forum2 ekonomi dunia, dan akhirnya kenapa kita harus menolak sistem ini. Argumentasi2 dan analisa2 yang dikasi bagus dan sangat2 logis dan realistis.

Trus alternatif2 bentuk aktivitas ekonomi juga dibahas disini, tapi yang menarik buat gw adalah model participa...more

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Apr 20, 2009 Andrew rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Noone

Shelves: business-economics

This has to be the most terribly written/argued and dull book I have ever read. I had to force myself to finish it, though I didn't want to. That being said I want to bore everyone with the details, though if you want to stop here it is sufficient to say: After the "perils" of capitalism, Mr Albert wants us all to hold hands and remunerate each other in a nice, orderly fashion while still maintaining private ownership of property. Oh and we have to be intimately involved with every aspect of our...more This has to be the most terribly written/argued and dull book I have ever read. I had to force myself to finish it, though I didn't want to. That being said I want to bore everyone with the details, though if you want to stop here it is sufficient to say: After the "perils" of capitalism, Mr Albert wants us all to hold hands and remunerate each other in a nice, orderly fashion while still maintaining private ownership of property. Oh and we have to be intimately involved with every aspect of our product consumption, down to the very last detail...for the upcoming year. If you do wish to waste the time and effort to read this book, please take note: Mr. Albert takes great effort to avoid the use of the words "pay," or "money." This is quite serious in a book about economics. Its probably why this book is referred to as an example of anarchistic visions.

It is unfortunate that he believes remuneration can only be fair if a trained person gets remunerated and does similar tasks to an untrained person (he says because they will balance out skills, eventually). His cute example of a good musician getting paid more than a bad one being unfair is a pretty great example of why parecon is unrealistic and won't happen. For example: I want to listen to a good musician, thus I pay him for his efforts (Buy tickets to his show, his cd, etc.). I do not want to listen to the bad musician, so I don't. Should I be forced to pay for this bad musician to play in empty venues, bringing in no more "remuneration" to the host? Or perhaps I can be forced to go watch this bad musician make a fool of himself. Obviously, if you're going to prove a point, you should at the very least use a good example (And not one from a movie). Take for instance another example: (Edited to sound like a bad doctor joke!) Doctor, doctor: I have cut open my arm and I'm bleeding everywhere, please help me! (Reply) Sorry I can't; I have to finish cleaning these bedpans full of poo because it is unfair to the nurses that they have to do it all the time so I will be with you in a minute; just after I scrub this fecal matter out of my fingernails... Don't even get me started on Mr Albert's ideas on education and training vs. ability.

I understand that what Mr. Albert is getting at is efficiency. He wants to close (eliminate?) the gap between the super rich and the poor, working class and give everyone a fair and balanced daily routine. A noble cause; but his suggestions and this book fail miserably at making this argument. Yes, people understand that working in a coal mine isn't at all like trading credit default swaps or organizing worldwide trade agreements, but not everyone can be involved in every deal. Yes they affect me--everything does, in an economic sense, really--so I would like to have a voice in the procedure. Since my options are limited I'm glad that someone intimately affiliated with the industry, deals, etc. is in charge and not some coal miner, temporarily working there to fulfill his "balanced job comlpex" requirements. People are trained and pursue careers to be involved because that's they want; not everyone can be involved or has the desire. What I can't understand is how Mr. Albert doesn't even bother to dissect capitalism, or relate parecon to its specific "perils." Capitalism is weighted, through private ownership, to one end--a few rich and generally older people have more money and a larger number of poor people have less. Thus they have easier lives and are able to live comfortably (Unless, of course, they are working all the time to make said money). If parecon works, as Albert suggests in the book, why doesn't he show us how?

I see elements of his arguments already in this "mid-capitalist" economy. Take for example, oh I don't know, a large multinational corporation. Within this organized group are strategic business units which are focused on performing particular tasks (Accounting, Legal, IT, etc.) all in different regions of the world, all have strength, solidarity, diversity, and self-management. They are beholden to the greater good of the company, but each unit has total control over what it does and how. The only thing missing is the equity, which is what this author is obviously arguing. Oh and I think we all have our fair share of meetings, thanks.

A good argument would at least involve describing how maintaining private ownership would not translate into one person/family/group/city/state/nation owning more property than others (Something Mr Albert glosses over). If he was to be realistic and practical, he would suggest something akin to forced joint-stock ownership in all aspects of the economy, regulated by an omniscient and omnipotent super computer (Bar codes on foreheads anyone?). But I'll stop there since this is fantasy and I don't want to put words in his mouth.(less)

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Oscar "It is unfortunate that he believes remuneration can only be fair if a trained person gets remunerated and does similar tasks to an untrained person (...more "It is unfortunate that he believes remuneration can only be fair if a trained person gets remunerated and does similar tasks to an untrained person (he says because they will balance out skills, eventually)."

No, this is not what Michael Albert argues in his book and he takes time out specifically to make it clear that this is not what he is saying. He even uses the same example as you, of a doctor doing the work of a nurse which he presents as ridiculous and something that should be avoided in any Parecon system. What is balanced is the empowerment provided by every job, ie the combination of rote and creative work, self-management and other decision making. Jobs are tailored according to the unique set of talents and training that people possess.

It may be that some administrative jobs are so demanding intellectually that only a handful few are able to perform the tasks favourably but this is a very dubious claim that places a large burden of proof on those who make it. In fact, practical experiences typically show the opposite, that workers are the most adept at handling their own affairs and that whenever they are able to influence decisions more easily they do the jobs better than any the traditional administrators all the while improving efficiency.

The point of the example of Salieri and Mozart is that someone who expends effort and sacrifice at a job should be remunerated according to their effort. If I work hard forty hours a week building fundaments to houses I should be rewarded for that effort and not be paid less than any colleagues I may have with better physique than me and subsequently better productivity. Nobody is forced, or even asked, to admire the way in which I do my job, which my physically superior colleagues do better and more gracefully anyway.

You write "not everyone can be involved in every deal", and this is trivially true as stated, again explicitly, by the author. If everyone could be involved with every decision acting on perfect information there would be no need for an alternative economic system. It is precisely because this is not possible that democratic institutions need to ensure that decisions reflect common interests.

Your claims of "solidarity" and "self-management" within the ranks of a multinational corporation and the implied beneficial nature of the "greater good of the company" are more difficult to take seriously and I do not see how to address them other than by suggesting you take a lot at the critical literature on the topic. The documentary The Corporation is accessible and may provide as a good start.(less)
Apr 24, 2011 07:52am

Chris Watkins Glad I'm not the only one who was filled with horror by this book.
Jan 28, 2012 07:06pm

Jun 24, 2008 Daniel rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, you-can-borrow

I have had this book for five years without reading it. I bought it because there was an economics major who briefly had a stint in my university organizing group CCLeft. I don't think he got more than a couple of chapters in. He also never came back to our meetings.

For the first half of the book, I was able to trudge through the stale writing and the miserably boring concepts because I thought of it as an economics textbook, whereby I was able to criticise capitalism and central planning based...more I have had this book for five years without reading it. I bought it because there was an economics major who briefly had a stint in my university organizing group CCLeft. I don't think he got more than a couple of chapters in. He also never came back to our meetings.

For the first half of the book, I was able to trudge through the stale writing and the miserably boring concepts because I thought of it as an economics textbook, whereby I was able to criticise capitalism and central planning based on their central values. And it succeeded in that and several other ways.

I think to the extent at which Albert synthesized the rewards of past struggle from below and to the left into a coherent theory of economics (whether from anarcho-syndicalist Spain, or horizontal planning in Porto Alegre), this book (and the concept of parecon itself) was a success. It is when Albert begins straying from broad vision and into tiny things that are uniquely "Albertian," that is when he gets into a fastidiousness that is annoying to me. He uses the defense of "don't get caught up in the tiny details, this is merely a vision that has yet to be implemented" in one paragraph (a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with) and in the next, he is documenting, in the most tedious way, how a swimming pool might be collectively purchased with participatory economics.

During the "demonstrations" of ParEcon, I found myself wishing that Albert had coauthored this book with a sci-fi writer. Ursula K LeGuin, for example described a unique economy in a unique world, and showed daily life within those contexts, in her book, The Dispossessed. Albert, as gifted a thinker as he is, is not a sci-fi writer. Life within participatory economics seemed almost consumed by participatory economics, and therefore it was difficult to imagine what, for example, my life would be like in a society with participatory economics.

Albert also has a tendency to, understandably, compare his vision with capitalism, and shows how criticisms of participatory economics are more valid criticisms of the current economic order. However, once I agreed with Albert that participatory economics would be better than capitalism (not hard to do to an anti-capitalist who is perfectly willing to throw capitalism to the wind for almost any reason), those criticisms remained almost un-addressed. Furthermore, some of the more persistent arguments were made into straw-men and burnt. Like the concern about vision dominating and becoming dogmatism, a concern I had throughout the book. The person he described with that concern was like a funhouse mirror version of myself, which he then proceeded to criticize with, leaving me with my criticism nearly unaddressed.

A criticism that remains completely unaddressed is whether ParEcon is behaviorist. Can we reward people for social acts and punish them for antisocial acts, and come out with social people in a social society? How do I reconcile this with the much more progressive thought (in comparison to economics) going on in pedagogy and education that says otherwise?

In summary, I don't disagree with ParEcon. I'm just not excited about it. It sounds far-off and difficult, and I am not convinced it's the way. In terms of creating dual power, I think there are stronger strategies out there (dual-power unionism, married with popular neighborhood assemblies, and caucusing for oppression, for example). If I were to start an enterprise, I would probably use parts of parecon (for example, balanced job complexes), and parts of other theories. So I don't see where it fits, as a whole concept, into my life.(less)

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Dec 17, 2012 Alex rated it 3 of 5 stars

conceptually, it's utterly fascinating. however, Albert fails to write on his subject in a way that's even remotely compelling. I still recommend that people force their way through it for the ideas presented, but it's a dreadfully dry read.

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Nov 03, 2010 David Johnston rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: economic-systems

Very compelling presentation of an alternative economic system.

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Nov 14, 2010 Mirza Sultan-Galiev rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: political-economy-and-its-critique

The GIK did this much better in 1930 something.

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May 12, 2008 Davidzlutnick rated it 4 of 5 stars

Albert lays out his vision of how a cooperatively-run economy could function everywhere from the workplace to the neighborhood. He does a goo d job outlining this future society and creating a realistic and more or less theoretically sound alternative to capitalist economic and social relations. Although I don't agree with everything he has planned it's wonderful to see a modern version of an anti-authoritarian/participatory society planned out in such detail. The only downside is it's a pretty...more

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Apr 23, 2010 Kam is currently reading it

I love his quotes. I hate the font. 50 pages in, the writing is kind of clumsy, I can't read it smoothly.

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Nov 18, 2008 Erik rated it 5 of 5 stars

A surprisingly realistic take on a collective society. Essentially it takes most of the properties of our current economic system and turns them upside down in order to meet human need. You realize that there actually is more than enough to go around, it just doesn't due to human greed. It's an anarchist manifesto. It's what I think we should strive for.

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Jul 08, 2007 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

Michael Albert wonderfully introduces the idea of participatory economy all the while shying away from the evil "A" word, anarchy.

It's crazy how democracy has turned into a sort of regional feudalism.

What?

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Sep 22, 2007 Javier rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: post-college

Not as interesting/enlightening as I had hoped.... I think Albert fundamentally failed to consider questions of post-scarcity/abundance in his treatment of a non-/post-capitalist economy.

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Jun 29, 2008 Brian Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Outlining a participatory economic alternative to market capitalism. A must read for all those interested in a democratic alternative to our current economic system.

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Dec 12, 2007 Tony Torres rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: poli-sci

I live in a free and democratic country, right? Then how come I go to work in an authoritarian institution everyday? Michael Albert explains how life could be different.

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Nov 08, 2008 Soopaseb rated it 5 of 5 stars

The banks bail-out have made you puke ? Fed-up with our economic system ? But have no concrete ideas of how to throw it away ? This book is for you !

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Feb 13, 2008 Dylan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Poly Sci nerds, progressives that can crunch numbers....

Hard to get through, and at times a bit hard to swallow. But for anyone who seeks a new socioeconomic path for this country a rewarding read.....

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Apr 05, 2007 Kevin rated it 4 of 5 stars

An immensely important (and generally on point) work on a topic that deserves careful thought and debate....now if only Albert had a writing style to match.

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Aug 17, 2008 ResoluteReader rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Sep 25, 2008 Steven Fake rated it 5 of 5 stars

Dry but very important. The details are open to debate but the general principles are indisputable.

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Jul 18, 2007 Patrick rated it 3 of 5 stars

a little on the predictable side, with some unique ideas about implementation of alternative economic models.

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Aug 16, 2011 Whitney rated it 5 of 5 stars

A must read for everyone considering themselves human (and not shark).

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Mar 01, 2011 Razael rated it 4 of 5 stars

Too much left winged for my taste. But it speaks the truth

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Feb 04, 2008 Abe rated it 3 of 5 stars

interesting, if not completely convincing

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