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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455462403321

Titolo

Thinking big [[electronic resource] ] : progressive ideas for a new era / / The Progressive Ideas Network ; James Lardner and Nathaniel Loewentheil, editors ; foreword by Robert Kuttner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-282-30045-8

9786612300455

1-60994-461-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Collana

BK currents book

Altri autori (Persone)

LardnerJames

LoewentheilNathaniel

Disciplina

320.51

320.51/30973

320.5130973

Soggetti

Progressivism (United States politics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: LOOKING AHEAD; 1. Building Shared Prosperity; 2. Investing in Our Future; Part 2: REALIZING OUR VALUES; 3. Capturing Democracy's Surge; 4. Upholding Community Values; 5. Rejoining the World; Part 3: TAKING ACTION; 6. From Financial Crisis to Opportunity; 7. Health Care for America; 8. An Inclusive Green Economy; 9. The Promise of Opportunity; 10. A Strengthened Middle Class; Index; About the Editors; About the Progressive Ideas Network

Sommario/riassunto

Times are changing. Instead of obsessing about what they're against, progressives have begun to think about what they're for-to prepare once again to play their role as agents of bold ideas and political and social transformation. Finding new confidence and imagination, they have begun to renew their political capital. The essays in this volume draw on that new store of capital to sketch the outlines of a progressive agenda for 21st-century America.Authors such as Van Jones, Dean Baker, Andrea Batista Schlesinger and Miles Rapoport cover a wide array



of topics and, in their policy recommendation