Economic Development
The places building a new economy
The foundations of the new economy movement are being laid, with new models emerging, and public ownership back on the agenda. But for the vision to become reality, renewed levels of democracy and participation are needed, as Clare Goff finds out.
‘We’re in the process of building a cathedral but all we are doing right now is carrying some big heavy rocks. At some point we will have built this enormous amazing edifice that everybody will be able to equally and fairly make use of. But at the moment it’s a hard struggle.’
Q & A with Gar Alperovitz: The new economy movement is crystallising
Gar Alperovitz is an economist and historian at the forefront of the movement for a new economy. He is a theorist – having written books including America Beyond Capitalism – and also a practitioner, helping build the Evergreen workers’ co-operative in Cleveland. To him, shifting to a new economy is the ‘most important set of fights in history’.
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