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Buried within the fine print of the 2014 Obama budget is a startling bit of history-changing policy. The government, the administration says,…
Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz has had a distinguished career as a historian, political economist, activist, writer, and government official. For fifteen years, he served as the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, and is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; Harvard’s Institute of Politics; the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of critically acclaimed books on the atomic bomb and atomic diplomacy.
With Americans' interest in socialism rising, we need to seriously consider alternative designs to the current system, argues Alperovitz, in this practical…
Gar Alperovitz, a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a chaired professor there. He has also…
President Obama is Time magazine's "Person of the Year" – the first Democratic president to receive two consecutive popular-vote majorities since Franklin…
In this interview, Shareable publisher and editor Neal Gorenflo and P2P Foundation's Michel Bauwens chat with Gar Alperovitz, the Lionel R. Bauman Professor…
Facebook’s founder is about to be worth $21 billion — thanks to the American public. Shouldn’t we get our share, too? On…
This piece is part of an On Leadership special feature exploring the present-day Iran tensions in the context of leadership lessons from crises confronted…
Noam Chomsky, a long-time friend and colleague, recently gave a talk at the University of Maryland, where I teach political economy. His…
City finances have long been under pressure, but the Great Recession and steady attacks on federal and state spending have compounded local…
If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want? Text of 2011 E.F. Schumacher Lecture – Nov. 5, 2011…