Pluralist commonwealth

The term pluralist commonwealth refers to a systemic model of wealth democratization supported and facilitated by a variety of different institutional forms. Political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz is generally credited for the development of this model as a way to resolve socio-economic problems associated with corporate capitalism and traditional state socialism.{{cite web|last1=Alperovitz|first1=Gar|title=The Pluralist Commonwealth|url=http://www.pluralistcommonwealth.org/|website=www.pluralistcommonwealth.org/|publisher=The Democracy Collaborative|accessdate=2014-08-14}}{{cite book|last1=Alperovitz|first1=Gar|title=What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution|date=May 1, 2013|publisher=Chelsea Green Publishing|location=85 North Main Street, Suite 120, White River Junction, VT 05001|isbn=978-1603585040|page=[https://archive.org/details/whatthenmustwedo0000alpe/page/145 145]|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/whatthenmustwedo0000alpe/page/145}}{{cite book|last1=O'Neill|first1=Martin|last2=Williamson|first2=Thad|title=Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond|date=Mar 3, 2014|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=5521 Research Park Drive, Suite 200, Catonsville, MD 21228|isbn=978-1444334104|page=269}} Expanding upon proposals that focus more narrowly on state- versus worker-ownership or state- versus self-managed enterprises, this "pluralist" approach involves large-scale public ownership of corporate equity, worker-owned and community-benefitting enterprises, Community Development Corporations, nonprofit corporations and enterprising state and local public agencies.{{cite web|last1=Alperovitz|first1=Gar|title=The Pluralist Commonwealth|url=http://www.pluralistcommonwealth.org/|website=www.pluralistcommonwealth.org/|publisher=The Democracy Collaborative|accessdate=2014-08-14}}{{cite book|last1=Alperovitz|first1=Gar|last2=Speth|first2=Gustave|title=America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy|date=Nov 9, 2011|publisher=Democracy Collaborative Press|location=6930 Carroll Ave., Suite 501, Takoma Park, MD 20912|isbn=978-0984785704|pages=70–77|edition=2nd}}{{cite book|last1=Garnett Jr|first1=Robert F|last2=Olsen|first2=Erik|last3=Starr|first3=Martha|title=Economic Pluralism|date=November 10, 2013|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0415747417|page=8}} According to Waheed Hussain: "A pluralist commonwealth is a free-market society in which the economic returns on productive assets improve the lives of large communities of individuals, rather than a narrow elite."{{cite journal|last1=Hussain|first1=Waheed|title=The Limits of a Pluralist Commonwealth|journal=The Good Society|date=2006|volume=15|issue=3|pages=37–44|publisher=Penn State University Press|doi=10.1353/gso.2008.0005|s2cid=144127775}}