This book iS one of many products of ten years of collaboration in
which the authors explored alternative ways tO manage the American
economy£®Oor enterprise had a number of dimensions£®W e wrote
articles and pamphlets£¬gave speeches£¬and testified before Congress¡¤
We organized£¬performed£¬and published research studies on a wide
variety of topics£¬including the banking system£¬infation£¬cooperatives£¬
small¡£busiss£®naturalÒ»Ò»resource planning£¬economic policies in
Europe£¬public enterprise£¬food production£¬and the waste of unem¡ª
ployment£®We attempted tO help£»a group of citizens and steelworkers
in Youngstown£¬Ohio£¬rehabilitate shut¡ªdown steel mill£®we helped
organize a coalition of organizations representing millions of Ameri¡ª
cans tO promote a solution tO 1nflfition that did not require massive
unemployment£®And we became involved in a variety of political
campaigns that we hoped would create the space for a more open and
responsible national dialogue on America¡¯S future£®
Some of the efforts can be said tO have succeeded£»some--relative tO
our hoDes¡ª¡ªdid not£®But all contributed tO this book£¬and the combina¡ª
tion of research and action projects established the context for the
development of our ideas£®Moreover£¬they all belong tO the larger work
of building an economy that serves human growth and development£¬
of which this book tOO is but a part£®
Reflecting on these experiences£¬we concluded that the major prob¡ª
lem facing the American political economy was not a lack of detailed
Droposals£®but the lack of fit between the way the world actually 1S and
7zJ of the way the world is£®we concluded that there is no
solution tO the dilemmas that beset US£¬e£®g£®£¬the apparent incompanbil
itv between full employment and price stability£¬the challenge of for¡ª
eign competition£¬the waste of military spending£¬the tenslons between
conservation and economic growth，without a recognmon 0t the im¡ª
portance of ideology in American economic life£® £® £®
To ignore prevailing ideology iS tO be utopian£®But tO recognize It
does not mean tO accept it£®This book tries tO address a central ques¡£
tion£ºWhat kind of economic policies meet the needs of the new
economic era while reinforcing certain values¡ªespecially cornmunlty and
[airness--essential tO support the kind of economic policies we need?A
value¡ªfree economics iS impossible£»and only if we are clear about our
values can We make informed decisions about them£®
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