Michael Albert

Michael Albert has been a political activist and radical publisher and author for his whole adult life. Schooled in the 1960s, he was highly active at MIT and in the Boston/Cambridge area, as well as nationally. He later helped found the U.S. book publisher South End Press, the monthly periodical Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, the noted international website ZNet (www.zcomm.org/znet), and numerous other projects. Author of over 20 books and hundreds of articles, teacher, organizer, and innovator, Albert is perhaps best known as co-creator with Robin Hahnel of the economic vision called participatory economics. Albert's most recent books (both Fall 2017) are Practical Utopia, "a succinct and thoughtful discussion of ambitious goals and practical principles of creating a desirable society," and RPS/2044, An Oral History of the Next American Revolution. Albert can be reached via the email sysop@zmag.org or the website ZNet.