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  <title><![CDATA[America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy]]></title>
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  <default-description>&quot;Socialism in the American Vernacular&quot;

That is how I describe the normative framework of my boss, political economist, Gar Alperovitz. American's politics needs this kind of bold, pragmatic, out-side-the-ideological-box thinking. I am happy to be working on this as his research associate. We're working on a new book that should be on all of your goodreads lists in two years!</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2004</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>America Beyond Capitalism</original-title>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This intelligent critique of America picks up on some serious problems. We're a society in &quot;real trouble&quot;, and we're less equal, less free, less masters of our own fate. Alperovitz notes correctly that we're moving dangerously towards an oligarchy or plutocracy, and I agree with this intel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41060166">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lays out the facts of our society fairly well, but I don't think the solutions presented are better than the alternatives -- putting the proceeds of society up for grabs in the political process seems to make things even more susceptible to mal-distribution than the way things are now.  Unless human...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63456846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alperovitz does an great job of spelling out a society not defined by capitalism. He seems limited, however, by standards of not declaring war on democracy.<br/><br/>Can you say Anarchy?]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 22 14:14:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Be sure to check out Powell's Books. I support independent bookstores. www.powells.com. Good Reads appears to be under the corporate control, at least indirectly, by Amazon.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of poll data, statistics and quotes from famous people but I didn't get any sense of an argument from the book.]]></body>
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