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Schneider Nathan
Everything For Everyone The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping The Next Economy
Everything For Everyone The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping The Next Economy
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Description: The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But as Nathan Schneider shows an alternative to the robber - baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic social and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own putting people in charge of the workplaces credit unions grocery stores healthcare and utilities they depend on. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution - - from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin to the rural electric co - op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show co - ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative powerful and fair democracy.
Title: Everything For Everyone The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping The Next Economy
Author(s): Schneider Nathan
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Barcode: 9781568589596
Pages: 288 Pages, 10 Black-And-White Charts And Graphs Throughout
Publication Date: 9/11/2018
Category: Popular Economics
Description: The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But as Nathan Schneider shows an alternative to the robber - baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic social and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own putting people in charge of the workplaces credit unions grocery stores healthcare and utilities they depend on. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution - - from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin to the rural electric co - op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show co - ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative powerful and fair democracy.
Title: Everything For Everyone The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping The Next Economy
Author(s): Schneider Nathan
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Barcode: 9781568589596
Pages: 288 Pages, 10 Black-And-White Charts And Graphs Throughout
Publication Date: 9/11/2018
Category: Popular Economics