THE REAL UTOPIAS SERIES

Associations and Democracy
(1992; publication 1995)

Equal Shares
(1994, publication 1996)

Recasting Egalitarianism
(1998; publication 1999)

Deepening Democracy
(2000; publication 2003)

Redesigning Redistribution
(2002; publication forthcoming)

Using Pensions for Social Control of Capitalist Investment
(2004; publication forthcoming)

Institutions for Gender Egalitarianism
(2006)

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 a "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.