The Washington Monthly, October 1983
SEVEN years ago, at the age of 34, I decided to become a socialist entrepreneur. It seemed like a logical calling to pursue. As a journalist, I’d flung my share of arrows at the big corporations. But if the left rejected corporate capitalism, we had to show there are some workable alternatives.
The New Republic, July 6,1974
ANTITRUST is a criminologist’s approach to economics: it seeks to punish unwanted behavior. In addition to that, we need public competitors to giant corporations.
The New Republic, June 15, 1974
I HAD NEVER HEARD of E. F. Schumacher before reading this book. After reading it I am ready to nominate him for the Nobel Prize in economics.
The New Republic, November 10,1973
WHEN THE TENNESSEE Valley Authority was created by Congress in 1933, it was conceived of not only as an effort to revitalize an impoverished region, but also as an experiment in public enterprise. Forty years later the returns on TVA are pretty much in.
The New Republic, October 13, 1973
THREE of the four provinces in western Canada — Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia — are governed by socialist parties. With the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, these are now the only democratic socialist governments in the Western Hemisphere.
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