Another chapter from the same book, I see.
"Policies advocated by free market or corporate libertarian ideologues have led to the creation of an economic system out of control. So what can we do? Needless to say, it hasn't been easy to create an economic system able to produce 358 billionaires while keeping another 1.3 billion people living in absolute deprivation. It took long and dedicated effort by legions of economists, lawyers, and politicians on the payrolls of monied interests to design and implement such a system. It required a radical altering of the dominant culture and the restructuring of many important institutions. It will take a similarly committed effort on the part of civil society to design and put in place an economic system supportive of economic justice and environmental sustainability."
Maybe we're not that far apart after all.
And yes, I did read what you linked to, and do agree with most of it, specifically, the bulleted points.
The idea is not to eliminate capitalism, but to strengthen it by curbing those who would subvert it for private gain by manipulating the levers of political and economic power and gaming the system.
