Occupation: Professor Birth: May 5, 1936
The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure..
If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game..
Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They som….
I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a….
Finding ways to organize work in which people are not locked into unequal power relationships is very important. Having said that, it's not easily do….
Parecon is a very tough-minded economic vision and model, and it sets a standard for us to look at..
The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices ….
Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explor….
The reality of the world we live in is that people sometimes aren't interested in many circumstances; no matter how much young radicals yell at them,….
There has been a change in consciousness that makes this one of the most interesting periods of American history, maybe the most interesting. There's….
We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically diff….
There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things….
In America, we need to go forward in nationalizing several large corporations: I think that's possible; we nationalized General Motors; we nationaliz….
We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ….
As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and s….
In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out par….
For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian societ….
Worker ownership is only one form of democratizing ownership..