Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution; and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics from 1999 to 2015. He also served as a legislative director in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate and as a special assistant in the US Department of State. Alperovitz is a distinguished lecturer with the American Historical Society, co-founded the Democracy Collaborative and co-chairs its Next System Project with James Gustav Speth.

Gar Alperovitz
Photograph of political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz
Born (1936-05-05) May 5, 1936
Racine, Wisconsin
Alma mater
  • B.S.: University of Wisconsin
  • M.A.: University of California, Berkeley
  • Ph.D.: University of Cambridge
OccupationCo-Chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative
Notable work
  • The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
  • America Beyond Capitalism
  • Unjust Deserts
Websitegaralperovitz.com
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