Building a New Economic System

by Leonard Lopate

June 19, 2013

Many Americans are frustrated with our economic system and are worried that it is failing. Gar Alperovitz argues that the time is right for a new-economy movement to take shape to build a new system In What Then Must We Do? he proposes a new economic system that is not corporate capitalism, not state socialism, but something entirely American.

Publication date: 2013-06-19

Parent publication: WNYC

Publisher: The Leonard Lopate Show

Publication URL: http://www.wnyc.org/story/300336-building-new-economic-system/

by Leonard Lopate

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