Allan Carlson's Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies--and Why They Disappeared was enlightening, entertaining, and disheartening. Why, because he shows the promise of economic systems that aren't Capitalist nor Marxist that did work for a short time. He lays out the history of separate movements that were largely unconnected, yet were all very similar. I'll skip the synopsis and give you the bullet points of the systems. OK, I can't find the "bullets" options here on blogspot, but you get the idea. 1) They all saw private property as the way to economic independence--limited though it may have been. 2) The family had primacy as the foundation of a good society and the local community ran a close second. The "State" was invited to stay out for the most part. 3) Agrarianism, traditional culture, and religion are all necessary in one form or another to the success of thi...