Just out in paperback, the book "America Beyond Capitalism" describes a mission critical blueprint that uses community as an economic foundation for the rebuilding of our American economy and democracy.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 1, 2006 -- Just out in paperback, America Beyond Capitalism, by noted political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz, argues that the first decade of the 21st Century is producing conditions that will force the United States to undergo historic changes. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have had coherent responses to these challenges.


One of the most important factors reshaping America is an increasingly feudal distribution of wealth ownership:

• The top 5% of Americans own just under 70% of all financial wealth.
• The top 1% of Americans now claim more income per year than the bottom 100 million Americans taken together.
• The top 2/10th of 1% makes more on the sale of stocks and bonds in one year than everyone else combined.

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