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The Accidental Societist

How to build a fairer economy, politics and society

Peter Ellis

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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
09 May 2024
Our lived experience should be enriched by a political and economic system that is just and fair, that strengthens the ties that bind us together as a society with shared values, and allows us to live, however we choose, safely, and secure in the provision of the essential elements of our lives; economic, human and environmental.

Our current market economy was conceived in a social vacuum, when gender, race and social class rights, were denied most of the population. There was no universal franshise. We can add intergenerational rights to that list. This book explores why our market economy and politics fails to adapt as society evolves. It answers the question, if not capitalism, what?

This is about far more than economics.

It raises the banner for equality, rights and economic democracy.

It defines what it means to be human, and the values with live by, share, and who we are as a society.

It is about a reshaping of politics around a radicalised Centre and beyond, and confronting unspoken truths, laying the ground for a new paradigm.

It affects the reader and future generations and the society we choose to shape and share. Of finding hope, through universal common values, and shared personal and collective self-interest.

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Imprint:   Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   246g
ISBN:   9781803817842
ISBN 10:   1803817844
Pages:   246
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Peter Ellis is the co-founder of the Society Alliance, a campaiging organisation promoting a societal economy and Homes within Homes, an organisation advocating the use of our existing housing stock to create affordable tenancies.He is a political thinker and campaigner, who after spending several years as a councillor in the mid-1980s has developed increasingly radical, yet inclusive solutions to the social and economic problems of the modern age. He writes as a father, seeking a better future for younger and future generations.His is a unique message saying we must challenge legacy, the bi-partisan economics of capitalism and socialism and embrace a more humane and democratic, plural economy, which places the individual and society at the heart of our decision making and politics.

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