Distributing Our Technological Inheritance

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.

Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance, Gar Alperovitz then constructs a philosophical argument for broad distribution of the profits earned from the capitalization of this technology. In the process he examines some of the practical ways that such distribution can be achieved.