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Beyond Reform or Revolution: Economic Transformation in the U.S.: A Roundtable Discussion
PART 3: Future

Steven Healy discusses the change radical economists’ change of focus from confronting the behemoth of capitalism to recognizing and supporting smaller-scale processes, and also the increasing partnerships between academics and community organizers.

  
Dan Swinney argues for the need for principled political change which includes a grassroots-based vision and a broad ideological coalition if we are to achieve necessary and fundamental change.  
Emily Kawano believes that there are many cracks in the façade of neo-liberalism, and that it is critical to build the solidarity economy to achieve structural change.  
Germai Medhanie thinks it is possible for these transformative practices to grow, and talks about “walkabouts” in New Haven that served to include communities of color.  
David Korten agrees that the solidarity economy has potential to unite people with similar values in a coalition for change, and isconcerned with the dominant personalities in neo-liberal capitalism as well as the set-up of the system.

Julie Matthaei, the moderator and an economics professor at Wellesley College, gives the example of how the competitive and elite college environment propels a certain type of student to success.

 

In this second round of questions, the comments focused on the idea of growth, from a neo-liberal and from a solidarity economy perspective.

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