A pragmatic vision of how democratic socialism can overcome the economic, workplace, political, environmental, social, and international crises that we face today.

Paul S. Adler is the Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy, and Professor of Management and Organization, Environmental Studies, and Sociology at the University of Southern California. In 2014-15, he served as President of the Academy of Management, the leading organization of management scholars.

• Preface


• Introduction




• 1. Five crises


• 2. The capitalist roots of these crises


• 3. A growing tension


• 4. The promise and limits of reform


• 5. Managing our economy, democratically and effectively


• 6. A democratic socialist America


• 7 . Getting there


• References