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Albert: Hannover Talk
Znet Article, September, 12 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Introduction First, I’d like to thank everyone here and especially the ...
Raptis: Katrina: Why?
Commentary, September, 06 2005
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Katrina: Variation of the Greek name "Aikaterini" or "Katerina", of uncertain etymology. Possibly: "Ekaterini", meaning : "either of the two". But, which two? Can one use the word in expressions such as : "Either of the two (e.g. W. Bush and Chene...
Albert: Embark Now
Znet Article, September, 01 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In the U.S. summer is winding down. Soon U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. Would that I was one of them, not because it would mean I was forty years younger - though that would be a nice turn of events - but because this i...
Albert: There Is An Alternative
Znet Article, July, 27 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In capitalism, owners together with about a fifth of the population who have highly empowered work decide what is produced, by what means, and with what distribution. Nearly four fifths of the population does largely rote labor, suffers inferior i...
Albert: Exploring Parecon
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In a world riddled with suicide bombings, inconclusive conflicts, and terribly selfish politics, it is a relief to see there are people like Michael Albert creatively searching for salves for the ills in our economic system. With his books "Movin...
Weiss: A Comparison of Economic Democracy and Participatory Economics
Znet Article, May, 04 2005
Adam Weiss
Weiss's ZSpace page
Introduction Many advocates of economic justice have long believed that capitalism needs to be transcended. However, positive programs for a just economy have been lacking compared to the hailstorm of anti-capitalist critiques that the left has p...
Albert: WTO, Globalization, and Alternatives
Znet Article, April, 21 2005
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Q: Michael, the WTO is set to come to Hong Kong for its next ministerial in December 2005. Could you describe briefly just what the WTO is, and also the process of 'globalization' that it fits into? MA: The WTO is an international organization w...
Hahnel: Book Interview on Economic Justice
Znet Article, April, 06 2005
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
1. Can you tell Znet, please, what your book, Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation (Routledge 2005) is about? What is it trying to communicate? Economic Justice and Democracy argues that progressives need to go back to ...
Hahnel: Winnowing Wheat From Chaff
Znet Article, March, 26 2005
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
For the Political Economy Seminar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on March 8, 2005 Social Democracy: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due I mean it as a great compliment when I say that capitalism functions poorly indeed without soc...
Raptis: Stability of Slopes
Commentary, January, 14 2005
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
A "slope" could be the inclined side of a hill (a natural slope) or the side of a man-made earth or stone structure as a dam or an embankment (an artificial slope). The failure (collapse) of the material (soil or rock) beneath a slope is called a ...
Raptis: Tsunamis And People
Commentary, January, 01 2005
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The Japanese word "tsunami" (pronounced tsoo-nah-mee) means "great wave in harbor" (which describes the problem very accurately). The scientific term is: "seismic sea wave." The expression "tidal wave" is inaccurate as this kind of wave has nothin...
Fresia: A Call to Artists: Support Parecon
Znet Article, December, 15 2004
Jerry Fresia
Fresia's ZSpace page
A history of art over the last 100 years, not as the history of the product, the piece, but as the history of decision making within our industry...
Albert: Life After Capitalism - And Now Too
Znet Article, December, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Why have my frequent co-author Robin Hahnel and I devoted great time and energy to developing, describing, and now advocating an economic model to replace capitalism? What are the model's features? How does it differ from oth...
Albert: Parecon in Turkey
Znet Article, December, 05 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am here to talk about economic vision. But it is September 11th, and I just came from the United States, and if in discussion period, in questions and answers, you want to ask about the US, about the election, about US foreign policy, really abo...
Spannos: Capitalism Turned Upside Down pt. 6
Audio, December, 01 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
In a six part series critics of capitalism explore how to replace the property, profits, and greed of the few with the equality, cooperation, and solidarity of the many. Chris Spannos interviews Robin Hahnel on Liberating Theory, Michael Lebow...
Parecon collective: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Znet Article, November, 16 2004
Vancouver Parecon collective
Parecon collective's ZSpace page
It’s been just over one year since the Vancouver Parecon Collective came into existence. It was sometime in September 2003 that a few of us Vancouver Pareconistas stumbled upon one another. Since then we have created a project that has far...
Dubhashi: Participative Economics
Znet Article, October, 27 2004
P r Dubhashi
Dubhashi's ZSpace page
Parecon: Life after Capitalism by Michael Albert; Verso 2003;pp 311, $16. Capitalism rules triumphant today all over the world in the era of globalisation. It has been left with no rival or alternative after the collapse of communism in the erstwh...
Albert: Life After Capitalism - And Now Too
Znet Article, October, 14 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
[This is a talk given in Rimini Italy at the Conference of the Pio Manzu Institute...on the occasion of Albert receiving the Medal the President of the Italian Republic for work on Parecon. The Citation on the Medal was... ----- Medal of the P...
Shalom: Parpolity Interview
Znet Article, September, 20 2004
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
The following is an interview between Stephen Shalom and Matt Grinder of the Vancouver Participatory Economics Collective. Introduction: In the 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Stephen Shalom presented a "rough draft" essay entit...
Cromwell: Prioritising Profit: Poverty In A Land Of Plenty
Commentary, September, 15 2004
David Cromwell
Cromwell's ZSpace page
Child Poverty? Who Cares!
