Dr. Alperovitz quotes Prof. Donald Livingston, who asked in 2002:.
Like Smith, Alperovitz asks a question with his book's title: What Then
Must We Do?
Now is the time, Alperovitz says, to expand these investments to co-ops,
employee-owned businesses, social enterprises and nonprofit land development.
The Alliance to Develop Power, in Western Massachusetts,
has developed what Alperovitz calls an $80 million“community economy” of housing co-ops
and other cooperatively controlled businesses.
The next time Bank of America's risky
scams threaten to implode the world's economy, Alperovitz says we should bail out the bank- and assume
public ownership of the corporation.
Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history,
why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin.