Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Common Wealth

Common Wealth Review: Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth Review: An End to Poverty?–A Historical Debate (Hardcover) Review: Common Wealth–Economics for a Crowded Planet Review: Deep Economy–The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future Review: How to Change the World–Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition Review: …

Worth A Look: From Slavery to Cooperative Commonwealth

This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These ‘labor republicans’ derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else’s will – to be dependent …