Ch. 21 Building a Better Economy
"The ultimate phase of this process is the situation in which the official structures... simply begin withering away and dying off, to be replaced by new structures that have evolved from 'below' and are put together in a fundamentally different way." - Vaclav Havel Let's complete Part 2 of this book by briefly summarizing some of the previous chapters, then outlining our strategy for moving forward and building that better economy. Summary of Part 2: Economy What is the economy? (Ch. 10) - When politicians and the media talk about "the economy" they are usually referring to GDP (gross domestic product), the stock market etc. But this is an extremely limited picture which ignores the economic wellbeing of more than 70% of the population. Particularly the working class. Our collective economic conversation must include the working class, the working poor and those who have been left behind by our current neo-liberal capitalist system. Capitalism (Ch. 1...