[Updated from Dec. 2011 with podcast episodes] Here’s the video of a conversation I had with David Schweickart, author of After Capitalism, at this year’s ICAPE conference. It was a great discussion; David’s work on economic democracy is one of the most fully-fleshed out alternative economic models we have, and I greatly appreciated this chance [...]
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