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Succeeding in taking the Jeffersonian spirit into the last bastion of privilege in America, this book offers workable solutions for making the American economy one that is truly of, by, and for the people.
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Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I: THE PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH: EQUALITY, LIBERTY, DEMOCRACY. 1. Equality: Beyond Tax-and-Spend. 2. Liberty: Money, Time, and Real Freedom of Choice. 3. Democracy: From the Ground Up. 4. Democracy: Inequality and Giant Corporations. 5. Democracy: Is a Continent Too Large? 6. The Pluralist commonwealth. PART II: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF WEALTH. 7. A Direct Stake In Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms. 8. Enterprising Cities: Right, Left, and Center. 9. Building Community: Neighborhoods and Nonprofits with a Mission. 10. State and National Innovators. 11. Coda: The Democratization of Wealth and the Era of Deepening Fiscal Crisis. PART III: LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND REGIONAL DECENTRALIZATION. 12. Is Local Democracy Possible in the Global Era? 13. Community, the Environment, and the "Nonsexist City." 14. The regional Restructuring of the American Continent. PART IV: TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY POPULISM. 15. The Logic of Long-term Political Refocusing. 16. Social Security, retirement, and Health Care. 17. A Twenty-Five Hour Week? 18. Beyond Super-Elites and Conspicuous Consumption: Real Ecological Sustainability in the twenty-First Century. 19. Coda: Twenty-First-Century Populism. PART V: TOWARD A MORALLY COHERENT POLITICS. Conclusion: the Challenge of the Era of Technological Abundance. Notes. Index.
