Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society

goodsociety.umd.edu

PEGS is a nonpartisan, ideologically diverse, nonprofit organization whose goal is to promote serious and sustained inquiry into innovative institutional designs for a good society. PEGS responds to the growing awareness that current versions of socialism and democratic capitalism fail to offer workable visions of a good society and seem increasingly to contradict such basic values as liberty, democracy, equality, and environmental sustainability. By encouraging development of practical visions of the good society, PEGS hopes to create a theoretical basis for the eventual restructuring of real world political-economic systems.

PEGS brings together a diverse international network of thinkers engaged in good society analysis. To help bridge some of the gaps between academic inquiry and practical reality, PEGSseeks and encourages the active participation of interested thinkers from politics, journalism, and the activist community, as well as from academia. The PEGS Board Members and Institutional Sponsors include a growing number of prominent thinkers and organizations.