What Then Must We Do by Gar Alperovitz

Building a New Economic System

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 19, 2013

Many Americans are frustrated with our economic system and are worried that it is failing. Gar Alperovitz argues that the time is right for a new-economy movement to take shape to build a new system In What Then Must We Do? he proposes a new economic system that is not corporate capitalism, not state socialism, but something entirely American.

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