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When you hear the word “efficiency” do you get aggressive, expecting a conservative onslaught that you will have to battle against? I…
Michael Albert
Michael Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on all these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. His personal interests, outside the political realm, focus on general science reading (with an emphasis on physics, math, and matters of evolution and cognitive science), computers, mystery and thriller/adventure novels, sea kayaking, and the more sedentary but no less challenging game of GO. Albert is the author of 21 books which include: No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World; Fanfare for the Future; Remembering Tomorrow; Realizing Hope; and Parecon: Life After Capitalism. Michael is currently host of the podcast Revolution Z and is a Friend of ZNetwork.
In a couple of weeks the paperback edition of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, will come off the press in England (Verso being…
I recently received the following message to the ZNet forum system from Matt Grinder who is a physics student at, I think,…
What is sustainability? This is a bit tricky, I think. Presumably it means operating in a fashion that is not self destructive.…
Historically, a frequent route to trying to describe a better society is to demand classlessness. Classes are groups who share sufficient conditions…
Yesterday I received in the mail the Korean edition of the book Parecon: Life After Capitalism. It is very elegant looking, but…
Economies can have theft, fraud, etc. What would it mean to say we would like to have an economy that minimizes the…
What about creating an organization of pareconists, so to speak? I don’t know whether this would be positive if it were it…
It has quickly become clear that this blog needs some introduction to participatory economics…as well as including an accumulating array of posts…
One possible topic for a parecon blog is how to best advocate participatory economics and what experiences we have and lessons we…