America the Possible Manifesto for a New Economy

Name: America the Possible Manifesto for a New Economy
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ISBN: 9780300198348

ISBN-10: 0300198345

ISBN-13: 9780300198348

Edition: 2013

Authors: James Gustave Speth

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In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we can still realize.The book identifies a dozen features of the American political economy--the country's basic operating system--where transformative change is essential. It spells out the specific changes that are needed to move toward a new political economy--one in which the true priority is to…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.58" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



Manifesto



A Nation in Trouble



Society at the Breaking Point



The Weight of the World



Running Out of Planet



In the Beauty of the Morning



America the Possible



Transformations



A Sustaining Post-Growth Economy



System Changes



Writhing Free of an Old Skin



Realizing Democracy



The Movement


Notes


Index