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    Democratizing Wealth

    By admin | Published: May 22, 2013

    On Wednesday, May 22nd, I had the pleasure of joining Reid Cramer, director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, for a discussion of my new book What Then Must We Do? 

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      "This book offers by far the most serious, intellectually grounded strategy for system-changing yet to appear. It could be the most important movement-building book of the new century..."
      —Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

      Available now from Chelsea Green Publishing
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      The Next American Revolution
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      "Concrete and feasible ways to reverse the ominous course of the past several decades and to open the way to a vibrant democracy with a sustainable economy… A marvelous book…I recommend it all the time"
      —Noam Chomsky

      "Highly readable; excellent for students…. A tonic and eye-opener for anyone who wants a politics that works."
      —Jane Mansbridge, President-Elect, American Political Science Association, Adams Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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      Unjust Deserts
      "This book opens an extraordinary new vista on the moral bankruptcy of our second Gilded Age."
      —Bill Moyers

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