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No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World Paperback – November 1, 2021

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Providing hope and direction to sustain commitment on the path to change, No Bosses is about winning a new world.

Life under capitalism. Rampant debilitating denial for the many next to vile enrichment of the few. Material deprivation, denial, and denigration. Dignity defiled. Michael Albert's book No Bosses advocates for the conception and then organization of a new economy. The vision offered is called participatory economics. It elevates self-management, equity, solidarity, diversity, and sustainability. It eliminates elitist, arrogant, dismissive, authoritarian, exploitation, competition, and homogenization. No Bosses proposes a built and natural productive commons, self-management by all who work, income for how long, how hard, and the onerousness of conditions of socially valued work, jobs that give all economic actors comparable means and inclination to participate in decisions that affect them, and a process called participatory planning in which caring behavior and solidarity are the currency of collective and individual success.

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Michael is a long-time activist, writer, and organizer known primarily for his affiliation with Z Communications and his original writing on and support for Participatory Economics and Participatory Society. He has written hundreds of articles, over twenty books, one novel, one screenplay, and has initiated numerous institutions and projects. He lives in the US.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zero Books (November 1, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 178279946X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782799467
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 0.55 x 8.57 inches
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Michael Albert has been a political activist and radical publisher and author for his whole adult life.

Schooled in the 1960s, he was highly active at MIT and in the Boston/Cambridge area, as well as nationally. He later helped found the U.S. book publisher South End Press, the monthly periodical Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, the noted international website ZNet (www.zcomm.org/znet), and numerous other projects.

Author of over 20 books and hundreds of articles, teacher, organizer, and innovator, Albert is perhaps best known as co-creator with Robin Hahnel of the economic vision called participatory economics.

Albert's most recent books (both Fall 2017) are Practical Utopia, "a succinct and thoughtful discussion of ambitious goals and practical principles of creating a desirable society," and RPS/2044, An Oral History of the Next American Revolution.

Albert can be reached via the email sysop@zmag.org or the website ZNet.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read proposal for a bottom-up socialist economy
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2021
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Michael Albert's book, No Bosses, provides an easy-to-read account of how we might build a socialist economy built from the bottom up. The system proposed, participatory economics, or ParEcon, seeks to fully democratize the economy. It would abolish class, but reserve some minor differences in income for those who work more hours, do more onerous work, or work that is more intense than average. These subjective evaluations could be assessed by co-workers at firms.

More complex tasks, such as how to allocate resources for production and consumption without centralized planning or markets, is detailed in the second half of the book. While Albert provides many details on how to build a participatory economy, he does not try to provide mechanical rules or a closed blueprint. Instead, he provides a "scaffold" as a foundation that can be built upon and changed through experimentation and customization of those who implement the ParEcon proposal.

For those seeking true equality, but are not satisfied with simply complaining about capitalism, this is essential reading. It's an easy read and will clarify key principles about economics, fairness, and democracy.
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David Baldwin
5.0 out of 5 stars A Necessary Education in Possibilities
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2022
I am not an economist or an activist or an academic in this field; my credentials as a social justice dilettante are impeccable. I have, however, been active--if you can call it that--for a few years in promoting the concept of worker-owned cooperatives as a replacement for the wage relations almost all of us work under today. One day I heard Michael Albert in an interview make the claim that you might get rid of owners, but unless you drastically rearrange the way the work world works, you will inevitably end up with all-powerful bosses again, and be back pretty much where you started. He had the stories and the analysis to back this up. This was unsettling news for a promoter of worker ownership, so I got this book, and read it. I also digested several episodes of Albert's podcast centered on the same subject, "RevolutionZ."

The first chapter is devoted to working out the values on which a just economy would be based. This is an essential and powerful first step, because by working out values rather than attempting to lay down blueprints, we establish the points of reference that will let us know if we are keeping to the right track as we move ahead. That way we can verify we are headed in the right direction even if we can't know where we end up, as it were.

Albert has an expository style in this book and in his audio podcasts that is both densely concentrated and relentlessly uniform in tone. It is pure ideas--good ideas, clearly and succinctly expressed--packed together with no filler and very little variation in the delivery. So I would not call it light reading. It can be heavy but steady going. There are no pictures, as Gaston complained to Belle. But the language itself is plain, and the rhetorical form taught me a lot about thoroughness in thinking through and presenting an argument. You might disagree with the ideas, but you will be hard pressed to find a missed step, an inconsistent assertion, or a hole in the logic.

This is an utterly sincere--and I believe, rigorous, thorough, and compelling--attempt to establish the core values of an alternative to capitalist economics, and from there to work out social economic structures that would embody and give expression to those values in daily life. I was sold on the first two--common ownership of productive assets (does that include housing?), and worker-consumer self-management of the economy itself. This is because my amateur reading of capitalism's early history has convinced me that these two--the Commons and the ability to self-provision--were the most essential aspects of community life lost when capitalism first took over.

Given Albert's analysis about the composition of individual jobs and the predictability of undesirable relapse if we continue to accept the default corporate division of labor, I would say that anyone interested in some alternative to capitalism needs to understand what he is proposing here. And I am more convinced than ever of Albert's premise that we do need to come together around some common vision if there is to be hope of realizing any alternative.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Anarcho-capitalist view of the book
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2022
It's a well written book with good intentions. You socialists should definitely go for it. Just leave Anarcho-capitalists like me alone to live my life. Hopefully that's not too much to ask? I found one oxymoron the book: the term Participatory Polity! A policy requires guns to be enforced on everyone. In other words, the vote of majority of participants will only work if it gets enforced by the guns so Participatory Polity may just be a word salad for Democratic Socialism: The rulling of 51% over 49%. What's new in this book again? At the end of the day I'm ok with a national divorce where you socialists can have your paradise and us capitalists can have the freedom live in our hell. Hopefully you will have the tolerance to create a road map to leave us alone. Please?
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Walkerpeople
5.0 out of 5 stars How we can make a better system
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2021
Not only does this talk about what a better system might look like, it goes into considerable detail about how it might work. One of the common cliches about efforts to go beyond capitalism is that people say 'what will you replace it with?' or 'sound good on paper but wont work in reality'. Albert's book address these cliches and more to show what we might replace capitalism with and how we could get it to work.
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