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The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

內容簡介

內容簡介 Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world – many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to necessary projects; massive inequality is the unavoidable side effect of economic growth; people are selfish and will only behave well with the right incentives. But a growing number of people – academic economists, business owners, policy entrepreneurs, and ordinary people – are rejecting these myths and reshaping economies around the world to reflect ethical and social values. Though they differ in approach, all share a vision of the economy as a place of moral action and accountability. Journalist Nick Romeo has spent years covering the world’s most innovative economic and policy ideas for The New Yorker. Romeo takes us on an extraordinary journey through the unforgettable stories and successes of people working to build economies that are more equal, just, and livable. Combining original, in-depth reporting with expert analysis, Romeo explores: The successful business owners organizing their companies as purpose trusts (as Patagonia recently did) to fulfill a higher mission, such as sharing profits with workers or protecting the environmentThe growing deployment of new models by venture capital funds to promote wealth creation for the poorest Americans and address climate change.How Oslo’s climate budgeting program is achieving the emission reduction targets the rest of the world continues to miss, creating a model that will soon be emulated by governments around the worldHow Portugal strengths democratic culture by letting citizens make crucial budget decisionsThe way worker ownership and cooperatives foster innovation, share wealth, and improve the quality of jobs, offering an increasingly popular model superior to the traditional corporationThe public-sector marketplace that offers decent work and real protections to gig workers in CaliforniaThe job guarantee program in southern Austria that offers high-quality meaningful jobs to every citizenMany books have exposed what’s not working in our current system. Romeo reveals something even more essential: the structure of a system that could actually work for everyone. Margaret Thatcher was wrong: there is an alternative. This is what it looks like.

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各界推薦 “TINA (There is no alternative) has been the most powerful weapon deployed against its critics by neoliberal free-market economists in the last few decades. In this informative and courageous book, Nick Romeo shows there is an alternative—or, rather, many alternatives—to the currently dominant neoliberal economic system. In doing so, he liberates our economic imagination and puts a backbone into economics as a moral science. This is a very valuable field manual for those who want to change our economies for the better.”―Ha-Joon Chang, professor of economics, University of London, and author of Edible Economics“An enlightening, inspiring read… The Alternative brings together an appealing range of ways people across the west are imaginatively and determinedly contesting the givens in today’s capitalism. There is an ache for better – for more just ways of organising the way we work and adding more meaning to our lives. You can’t help but applaud Nick Romeo for showing the workable alternatives to capitalism and the moral driver behind them – everything from the way companies are incorporated to how employees are hired, paid and enabled to share in the value they create.” ―The Guardian“Journalist Romeo debuts with an invigorating investigation of how governments across the globe are implementing creative and practical fixes…This is an eye-opening handbook for a better world.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review“[It] makes a terrific complement to Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America for readers looking for practical solutions…Eschewing both “revolution [and] resignation.” ―Kirkus

作者介紹

作者介紹 Nick RomeoNick Romeo covers policy and ideas for The New Yorker and teaches in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The MIT Technology Review, and many other venues.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 如何在日趨極端、不平等的經濟結構中找到平衡解方？
紐約客雜誌記者Nick Romeo結合切身多年觀察與科學數據分析，指出國家與企業應走的路