i did wonder how this differs from all the other proposals of this sort. Perhaps there could be 'label of ingrediants' with definitions of them (e.g. MSG = glutamate) so you really know. I'd even wonder how the social evolutionary history differs from what say, Engels wrote, Robert Audrey.. The one thing good here may be this is not just another academic account written for academics (typically with less than 10% new ideas) but possibly seen as a popular tool. But alot of books like that seem to have been around for years. The only issue is who gets the best seller, and the distribution (Robert Frank, Juliet Schor, Thomas Frank, etc.) I'd be interested in a 'metric' showing 1 book = N% social change. Alot of the people i'm around dont read, and/or discourage it. (Some who are paid to, discourage it because they dont want any competition, nor to be called out on the fact that if they write something like 'we should cut down on meat' then they should do that---instead its just a paycheck about 'should' .)
--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: From: Charlie <[email protected]> Subject: [Pen-l] Re: notes on how socialism should be run To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:57 PM Thanks to Jim for featuring the concepts in my book From Capitalism to Equality when he spoke to the Unitarians. I'll never forget U. Utah Phillips talking about how dogmatic the Unitarians are. He angered them once, and they burned a question mark on his lawn. The model offered in the last two chapters is just that, a workable economic model. It was also intended to break through the impasse of planning versus market. If the model in all its details were taken as the only way to go, it would indeed be a utopian recipe. So what are the essential principles of an economic program for the United States? I've tried to answer that in my book just now coming out, No Rich, No Poor: Why a failed economy must give way to a program of common prosperity. (It's available through your bookstore and the major book outlets.) The new book also explains the barriers that block mass prosperity under capitalism today. Examining the history of capitalist accumulation, the changing nature of labor, and crucial differences between pre-capitalist societies and capitalism, it shows why there has not been a big reform victory in the United States for so many years. Charles Andrews -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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