The Real Utopias Project

Series Editor: Erik Olin Wright

The Real Utopias Project embraces a tension between dreams and practice. It is founded on the belief that what is pragmatically possible is not fixed independently of our imaginations, but is itself shaped by our visions. The fulfillment of such a belief involves ‘real utopias’: utopian ideals that are grounded in the real potentials for redesigning social institutions.

In its attempt at sustaining and deepening serious discussion of radical alternatives to existing social practices, the Real Utopias Project examines various basic institutions—property rights and the market, secondary associations, the family, the welfare state, among others—and focuses on specific proposals for their fundamental redesign. The books in the series are the result of workshop conferences, at which groups of scholars are invited to respond to provocative manuscripts.

Volume I: Associations and Democracy

Volume II: Equal Shares

Volume III: Recasting Egalitarianism

Volume IV: Deepening Democracy

Volume V: Redesigning Distribution

Volume VI: Gender Equality