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Community & Place Democracy & Governance Democratic Ownership Environment & Energy Gender & Sexuality Health & Wellbeing Money & Banking Movement Strategy & History Public Planning Race & Ethnicity

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Investment

Investment

by Gar Alperovitz

Why is investment in the current system fundamentally undemocratic and unsustainable? How would a Pluralist Commonwealth democratize investment? Where is investment managed in more democratic directions today? read more
Public Planning Democracy & Governance

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Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction

by Gar Alperovitz

If the design of corporate capitalism is unable to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability as a matter of inherent systemic architecture, what systemic ‘design’ might ultimately achieve and sustain these values? read more
Community & Place Democratic Ownership Democracy & Governance

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Ecological Sustainability

by Gar Alperovitz

Why is pluralism necessary to guarantee ecologically sustainable ends? What are the key strategies for environmental protection in the Pluralist Commonwealth? What are some promising on the ground developments that point toward an ecologically sustainable Pluralist Commonwealth? read more
Environment & Energy

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Prehistory

by Gar Alperovitz

Why is the idea of prehistory important for thinking about systemic change? Are we in the prehistory of genuine systemic change, the prehistory of a Pluralist Commonwealth? read more
Movement Strategy & History

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Commonwealth

by Gar Alperovitz

What does it mean to hold wealth in common? Why is wealth held in common and democratized at various scales, so important for the design of a next system? What are some examples of how “common wealth” builds a “commonwealth” today? read more
Community & Place Democratic Ownership

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Liberty

Liberty

by Gar Alperovitz

What is liberty? Why must liberty be a central part of the design for the pluralist commonwealth? Where is a renewed conception of liberty being developed on the ground today? read more
Democracy & Governance

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Economic Change

Economic Change

by Gar Alperovitz

How does economic change really occur locally and nationally? How, specifically, can we build upon the ways cities and states already foster the local economy to create the Pluralist Commonwealth? What are some examples of shifts toward greater democracy? read more
Public Planning Democracy & Governance

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public

Public

by Gar Alperovitz

Why are new forms of public economic institutions important at certain critical levels of scale in the Pluralist Commonwealth? What are the key challenges for public ownership? Where are communities organizing elements of public ownership in the economy? read more
Democratic Ownership

Community

by Gar Alperovitz

Why is community important to the pluralist commonwealth? What are institutional mechanisms aimed at undergirding rather than undermining community in a Pluralist Commonwealth? What current developments point towards the restoration of community as a central category? read more
Community & Place Democracy & Governance