The Present and Future of Economic Justice and Socialism in Latin America

Robin Hahnel, a professor of economics at American University in Washington, D.C., is one of the most thoughtful and insightful political economists in the United States. In the books he has authored and coauthored, Looking Forward, the Political Economy of Participatory Economics and most recently, Economic Justice and Democracy, Robin Hahnel has written in depth about strategy towards and vision of a participatory economics society as a necessary and desirable alternative to capitalism. He has studied the politics and economics of many countries in Latin America, most recently Venezuela in which he visited and gave lectures in the summer 2007.

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