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Capitalism Has Failed: 5 Bold Ways to Build a New World
http://www.alternet.org/economy/155456/capitalism_has_failed%3A_5_bold_ways_to_build_a_new_world/_310x220
As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In New Economic Visions, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by economics editor Lynn Parramore in partnership with political economist Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative, creative thinkers come together to explore the exciting ideas and projects that are shaping the philosophical and political vision of the movement that could take our economy back.
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Small Is Beautiful
Many people imagining our next economy are swept up in the romance of a return to a localized or regionalized economy, where wealth is built by local people creatively deploying local resources to meet local needs.
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Marx 2.0
Another group of theorists are updating Marx for the 21st century, proffering models that put both control and profit of enterprises into the workers' hands. In some of these, workers are also owners, with a full stake in the success or failure of the business. In others (such as the one proposed by philosopher David Schwiekart, which was based on Yugoslavia's industrial policy), the state is the owner and primary investor in the business. The workers lease the means of production, run the business, return some of the proceeds to the government, and distribute the rest of the profit between themselves.
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Systems Theory
One of the great breakthroughs in human understanding over the past 40 years has been the realization that all complex systems -- economic, political, biological, mechanical, environmental, or social -- behave according to a simple set of common principles. The rules that govern the behavior of one set of systems usually apply to other kinds of systems as well.
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Capitalism Has Failed: 5 Bold Ways to Build a New World (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2012
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(5,924 posts)1. I was browsing through a 100-year-old book about education in Europe...
It said conservatives distrusted the new Capitalist model, favoring the tried & true Socialist model. I think we've come full circle.
callous taoboy
(4,585 posts)2. Countries that have implemented this approach in education
have the highest student success. Germany, for example, has an education system with educators calling all of the shots.