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Gar Alperovitz

Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics

Gar Alperovitz
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Gar Alperovitz Biography

Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Alperovitz also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State. Alperovitz is a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, and a member of the board of directors for the New Economics Institute.

Alperovitz is a political economist and historian whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Atlantic among other publications. Alperovitz has been profiled by The New York Times, the Associated Press, People, UPI, and Mother Jones, and has been a guest on numerous network TV and cable news programs, including Meet the Press, Larry King Live, The Charlie Rose Show, Crossfire, and The O'Reilly Factor. Alperovitz is the author of critically acclaimed books on the atomic bomb and atomic diplomacy and was named "Distinguished Finalist" for the Lionel Gelber Prize for The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth, (Knopf, 1995). His research interests include:

  • community-based political-economic development, and in particular new institutions of community wealth ownership;

  • political-economic theory, including system-wide political-economic design particularly as related to normative issues of equality, democracy, liberty, community and ecological sustainability;

  • local, state and national policy approaches to community stability in the era of globalization;

  • the history and future of nuclear weapons; arms control and disarmament strategies, including work on the conditions of peace and related long-term political economic structural change.

Alperovitz's articles include "Another World is Possible", published in Mother Jones; "A Top Ten List of Bold New Ideas", published in The Nation; and "You Say You Want a Revolution?" in WorldWatch.

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Gar Alperovitz Books

  • What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
    What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
  • America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, 2nd Edition
    America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, 2nd Edition
  • If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want? (Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures Book 31)
    If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want? (Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures Book 31)
  • The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
    The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
  • Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power
    Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power

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