The first of these is “Graceful Simplicity: The Foundations of Bread and Roses Socialism.” This is an audio version of Segal’s 1999, Book of the Month Club book in which he calls for a fundamental shift in our economic life. Rather than understanding progress as higher levels of income and consumption, Segal advocates a turn towards “voluntary simplicity” in which progress would be measured by the extent to which we succeed in “taking back our time” from standard work jobs and devoting it to those things most meaningful in life. In recent years Segal has formulated this as “bread and roses socialism,” and calls for public policies that will open the option of the three-day workweek.
The second audiobook is “The Olive Branch From Palestine: The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse.” This is an expanded version of Segal’s new book published by the University of California Press last spring. Segal offers a new understanding of the failed Middle East peace process. He focuses on the 1988 peace initiative of the PLO and their Declaration…
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