America the Possible : Manifesto for a New Economy

English

ISBN: 0300180764

EAN: 9780300180763

Category: Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy/Law / Jurisprudence/Political Science / Political Ideologies / General/

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release Date: 09/30/2012

Synopsis: In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we can still realize. The book identifies a dozen features of the American political economythe countrys basic operating systemwhere transformative change is essential. It spells out the specific changes that are needed to move toward a new political economyone in which the true priority is to sustain people and planet. Supported by a compelling theory of change that explains how system change can come to America, the book also presents a vision of political, social, and economic life in a renewed America. Speth envisions a future that will be well worth fighting for. In short, this is a book about the American future and the strong possibility that we yet have it in ourselves to use our freedom and our democracy in powerful ways to create something fine, a reborn America, for our children and grandchildren.

America the Possible : Manifesto for a New Economy

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 2.3 inches

Width: 6.13 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 18.45 oz

Pages: 272