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Albert: Goodbye Soviets?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union has been a severe psychic loss for many leftists. Why? The end of Soviet power has increased U.S. military dominance. There is a grave possibility of famine. Even without a new coup, Yeltsin and/or his counterpa...
Albert: Cuba SÃ?
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In the nearly three decades since Castro's assessment, for all of Latin America except Cuba, the above statistics have improved little, or worsened. In the 1980s, income in Latin America, excluding Cuba, declined by 8 percent, according to the Int...
Albert: Revolutions in the East
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
As a Czech poster put it, “the Poles took ten years, the Hungarians ten months, the East Germans ten weeks, and the Czechoslovaks only ten days†to topple regimes once viewed as unassailable. Here is an attempt to distinguish the good news fro...
Albert: Reply To Democracy And Nature Comments
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
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Having been kindly invited to contribute to an upcoming issue of Democracy & Nature, I was sent some back issues, including No. 9. In it I found Takis Fotopoulis’s “Outline for an Economic Model†and in that I found a number of references to...
Albert: Participatory Economics
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Michael Albert
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According to most economists, the activities of separate groups of producers and consumers can be coordinated by markets or by authoritarian planning—but there is no “third way.â€
Albert: Socialism As It Was Always Meant To Be
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
As the twentieth century draws to a close, what have we learned about how we should manage our economic affairs? What should we do if we had the opportunity to start again?
Albert: Venezuelan Direct Democracy: The case of the Consejos Comunales.
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and legislative power to the councils. This movement was se...
Albert: Markets Über Alles?
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Other than broad references to income distribution, homelessness, infrastructure, and ecology, most efforts to demonstrate the above points have been abstract and have not yet convinced even progressive economists, much less the broad population. ...
Albert: Neoclassical Micro And Macro Economics--Science Or Silliness?
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
BY ITS own claims economics is the most scientific "social science." Yet non-economist critics such as E.F. Schumacher tell us that "to produce [economic] figures about the unknown, the current method is to make a guess about something or other--c...
Albert: When the Ship Comes In
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The following is a slightly revised transcript of the Testimony Presentation by Michael Albert delivered at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002.
Albert: Participatory Economics Interview
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
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We're in the studio today with Michael Albert, activist and author of several books, including Looking Forward from South End Press and Political Economy of Participatory Economics from Princeton University Press, and co-founder and editor of Z Ma...
Albert: ParEcon
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I call those fallen Eastern Bloc economies coordinator economies because coordinators are the people in the economy who largely monopolize empowering work, higher incomes, great power, and high status, all of it justified by educational credential...
Albert: We Can Win!
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Michael Albert
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To retain control of oil prices, forestall a peace dividend, and divert attention from the abominable price of Reagan's war on the poor, Bush threatens to unleash rivers of blood in the Mideast. Only fear of international isolation, potentially hy...
Albert: Buying Dreams: Visions For A Better Future
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Left activists are moved, first and foremost, by refusal to tolerate injustice. Still, a clear conception of improved social relations can help us understand injustices we oppose and visions, of more desirable futures can help sustain and orient s...
Albert: Obama Mania?
Commentary, November, 06 2008
Michael Albert
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Post Election Thoughts...
Albert: An Interview I Would Love To Read
Znet Article, November, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An look into the possible future, two years from now...
Albert: Concluding Comments for Exchange with Wayne Price
Znet Article, October, 05 2008
Michael Albert
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Wayne and I agree on the need to address all dimensions of life, though I perhaps regard kinship, culture, and polity more on a par with economy and class than Wayne does – a difference that didn’t get emphasized in the exchange.
Albert: On the death of capitalism
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Interview with Ceasefire Magazine...
Lanz: Interview On Venezuelan Workplaces with Carlos Lanz
Znet Article, October, 03 2008
Carlos Lanz
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Carlos Lanz is an advisor to the Ministry of Education and former director of the Aluminum processing plant Alcasa, which was one of the first experiments in creating a socialist enterprise in Venezuela, in which the workers run one of the country...
Albert: Rejoining Price’s Reply
Znet Article, October, 02 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
To avoid going in circles, I will try to be brief…except on the matter of self-sufficiency and scale, which seems to concern many people on the left, particularly anarchists and Greens.
