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Committee on the Political Economy
of the Good Society (PEGS)
Department
of Government and Politics, 3140 Tydings Hall, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
E-mail:
pegs@gvpt.umd.edu; WWW: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/pegs/
Administered
jointly by the National Center for Economic and
Security Alternatives and the Harrison Center of University of
Maryland's Department of Government and Politics, the Committee on the
Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit
organization that provides a forum for over 1,800 leaders from academia,
business, politics, journalism, and the activist community to discuss
and debate alternative political economy theories and institutional designs.
An outgrowth of activities begun by "scholar–activists committed
to a fundamental reorientation within the social sciences" in the
1980s, PEGS "responds to the growing awareness that current versions
of socialism and democratic capitalism fail to offer workable visions
of a good society—while their real world incarnation seems increasingly
indifferent to such basic values as liberty, democracy, equality, and
environmental sustainability." Three times a year, PEGS publishes
The Good Society. Hard
copies of the journal are sent to members, and selected articles are available
at the PEGS Web site.
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