The New Systems Reader
The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities. The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change.
The Next System Project: Overview and Introduction
Growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is occurring. It is time to explore genuine alternatives and new models—“the next system.”
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- Ralph Nader Consumer Advocate, Author, Former Presidential Candidate
- Frances Fox Piven City University of New York
- Annie Leonard Greenpeace USA
- Oliver Stone Academy Award-winning Filmmaker
- Timothy E. Wirth United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
- Ai-jen Poo National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Jill Stein 2012 Green Party Presidential Nominee
- Gar Alperovitz The Next System Project
- James Gustave Speth The Next System Project
- Jane Mansbridge Harvard University
- Gerald Hudson Service Employees International Union
- Robert B. Reich University of California at Berkeley
- Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Barbara Ehrenreich Author
- Jeffrey D. Sachs Columbia University
- Gerald Torres Cornell University Law School
- Larry Cohen Communications Workers of America
- Julie Matthaei Cornerstone Cohousing
- Leo Gerard United Steelworkers
- John James Conyers, Jr. Thirteenth District, Michigan
- Bill McKibben 350.org
- Saskia Sassen Columbia University
- Manuel Pastor University of Southern California
- J. Phillip Thompson Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Medea Benjamin CODEPINK
- Sarita Gupta Jobs With Justice
- Noam Chomsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lawrence Mishel Economic Policy Institute
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz California State University
- Daniel Ellsberg Author, Whistleblower
- Herman E. Daly University of Maryland
- Heather McGhee Demos
- Anna Galland MoveOn.org Civic Action
- Danny Glover Actor, Social Activist
- Nancy Fraser New School for Social Research
- Van Jones The Dream Corps & Rebuild The Dream