Naomi Klein

Marjorie Kelly

Ted Howard

How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few

The Making of a Democratic Economy

Jeremy Rifkin

For the first time Entropy has been completely revised and updated to include a new subtitle which reflects the expanded focus on the greenhouse effect--the largest crisis ever to face mankind.

Into the Greenhouse World

Entropy

Argues that a spiritual awakening that already has adherents among the Charismatics and the Evangelicals will bring man to the threshold of a brave new world or provide the basis for an emerging fascism

God in the Age of Scarcity

The Emerging Order

Explains the nature of recombinant DNA and provides an historical review of the heated controversy surrounding eugenics and genetic engineering

The Artificial Creation of Life and what it Means for the Future of the Human Race

Who Should Play God?

This book traces the history of the artificial creation of life and its moral consequences.

Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people. We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive economy we live with now enables the financial elite to squeeze out maximum gain for themselves, heedless of damage to people or planet. But Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard show that there is a new economy emerging focused on helping everyone thrive while respecting planetary boundaries. At a time when competing political visions are at stake the world over, this book urges a move beyond tinkering at the margins to address the systemic crisis of our economy. Kelly and Howard outline seven principles of what they call a Democratic Economy: community, inclusion, place (keeping wealth local), good work (putting labor before capital), democratized ownership, ethical finance, and sustainability. Each principle is paired with a place putting it into practice: Pine Ridge, Preston, Portland, Cleveland, and more. This book tells stories not just of activists and grassroots leaders but of the unexpected accomplices of the Democratic Economy. Seeds of a future beyond corporate capitalism and state socialism are being planted in hospital procurement departments, pension fund offices, and even company boardrooms. The road to a system grounded in community, democracy, and justice remains uncertain. Kelly and Howard help us understand we make this road as we walk it by taking a first step together beyond isolation and despair.

Ted Howard

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