CAPES members have given two presentations in recent months that you might find of interest:

(1) A presentation on participatory economics and finance at the University of Chicago - May 19, 2009:

http://www.chicagoparecon.org/full_audio_of_may_19_presentation_participatory_economics_and_finance

(2) A presentation at a panel on "People’s Solutions to the Economic Crisis" at the Albany Park Branch Library (in Chicago) - April 25, 2009:

CAPES will be part of a panel presentation in Chicago on Saturday, April 25 on the economic crisis and proposed solutions. The announcement of the event is below.

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We will be having an informative and exciting program for April, with presentations by Susan, Stu, Mitchell, and Neal (of 10 minutes or less) on what would be solutions to the economic crisis for we the people. Hope you can make it. Your views are welcome in the discussion period.

*FREE* public DISCUSSION program **

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

For the First Socialist Economics Forum, Carora Venezuela, September 4, 2008

Robin Hahnel, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC, USA

Where is socialism being reinvented at the dawn of the new millennium? In Latin America where ALBA and the Banco del Sur are replacing the FTAA and the IDB. Where in Latin America is the path from populism and reform to a new kind of participatory socialism being forged? In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

On June 29, 2008, the Gateway Greens (the Green Party of St. Louis) hosted Surviving Climate Change -- a roundtable. Both Mitchell Szczepanczyk of CAPES and David Schweickart of Loyola University reprised their noted 2007 debate with a roundtable panel in St. Louis entitled "The Economics of Less Stuff and Better Lives".

Hi, everyone. We have two updates to share.

(1) Real Utopia -- the book about participatory society institutions and efforts, which CAPES contributed a chapter to -- is available for purchase. You can order a copy direct from the publisher, AK Press, here:

http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/realutopiaakpress

We hope to have a party sometime in the summer to celebrate the book's release. We'll keep you posted on details.

"Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century" is a new book about a more just and human society, and the efforts underway to help win it -- a book to which CAPES has contributed.

The book's blurb describes more: "Instead of simply declaring 'another world is possible,' the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain.