The Nonprofit Sector: Radical Potential?

Christopher Gunn
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Christopher Gunn: Economics Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, gunn@HWS.edu

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1997, vol. 29, issue 3, 92-102

Abstract: What is the potential for using nonprofit institutions to foster radical change in the United States? At a time when the public sector is heavily constrained, does the third sector provide a base for radical activity? Recent writing advocating growth of the sector is surveyed, as are some of the sector's most significant areas of activity. While most nonprofit institutions function for social reproduction and tight constraints exist for all of them, they do offer some means by which to work for change.

Date: 1997
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