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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> A startling thing happened just as we were preparing to write the intro- duction to this new edition of The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It). We had traveled to England to give the opening lecture for a workshop called “Contesting Capitalism: Practices and Strategies” hosted by the Collective for Alternative Organisation Studies (CAOS) at the Univer- sity of Leicester Management Centre. On the day before the workshop we walked into the Centre to meet our hosts and were welcomed into an entirely friendly intellectual and political environment-one in which thinking about and experimenting with alternatives to conventional capi- talism were the order of the day (and the plan for the decade or decades to come). The next day was even more astonishing. We encountered sixty to seventy workshop participants including local activists and so- cial scientists from the United Kingdom and Europe and soon realized that while Leicester might be institutionally advanced it is in no way isolated: individuals and groups are pursuing research on all manner of alternatives from cooperatives to local currencies to community credit institutions to commons restoration. Moreover their studies are being conducted in a spirit of openness to possibility rather than in the more familiar negative spirit in which co-optation failure and falling short are expected and confirmed. Alternatives whatever that disputed term might be taken to mean are no longer simply jottings in the margins of a central (LL)