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A review by lizzlelizzle
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy by Nick Romeo
5.0
YESSSS read this!! If you believe we are in a planetary crisis, you may also believe our existing economic system is unquestionably failing us. And yet, “The strongest evidence that alternative arrangements are viable is to show that they already exist.” This book provides a beautifully well-researched overview of ideas like job guarantees, employee ownership, true pricing, participatory and climate budgeting, cooperative takeovers, purpose trusts, pervasiveness of neoliberal economics education amounting to propaganda, a National Investment Authority, and more…all of which EXIST today and are expanding around the world and already making it a better place.
“Future generations may regard economic systems that do not reflect the true price of goods—including their impacts on workers, the natural world, and future generations—as in controversially wrong, just as we regard the institution of slavery today.”
The book acknowledges that no policy on its own is a comprehensive solution to the economic, political, social, and climate problems we face. But “the fact that life and culture are already quite different in some of the places where only a few of these initiatives exist suggests the potential for deep transformation even if three or four were broadly adopted in the same region and could work in synergy.” We’re talking SYSTEMS CHANGE!!!
Loved this & recommend it to all.
“Future generations may regard economic systems that do not reflect the true price of goods—including their impacts on workers, the natural world, and future generations—as in controversially wrong, just as we regard the institution of slavery today.”
The book acknowledges that no policy on its own is a comprehensive solution to the economic, political, social, and climate problems we face. But “the fact that life and culture are already quite different in some of the places where only a few of these initiatives exist suggests the potential for deep transformation even if three or four were broadly adopted in the same region and could work in synergy.” We’re talking SYSTEMS CHANGE!!!
Loved this & recommend it to all.