Life After Capitalism

Life After Capitalism begins at naught and ends with what you will hopefully agree is a compelling vision for a new economy, including description and argument for values and for main or defining institutions and rebuttal of criticisms. The idea is participants should end up able to compellingly answer what do you want instead of capitalism for the economy. The main areas addressed are production, consumption, and allocation including current and preferred future institutions. Thus on the one hand private ownership, top down decision making, corporate divisions of labor, and markets and central planning for allocation, and on the other hand collective ownership, self management, balanced job complexes, and participatory planning for allocation. Each week has a video lecture, a different text lecture covering the same overall material but more formally, and often some extra totally optional reading, such as interviews, debates, etc. No prior background is necessary.