Recent Articles by Gar Alperovitz

7 Cool Companies: The Best Alternatives to Corporate Power

Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb and Ted Howard, Yes! Magazine, Fall 2007.

New Approaches Are Needed to Curb Poverty

Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb and Ted Howard, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 15, 2007.

Asset Building Comes of Age

Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb and Ted Howard, Shelterforce (National Housing Institute), #149, Spring, 2007.

California Split

Gar Alperovitz, Op-Ed, The New York Times, February 10, 2007.

Also by Gar Alperovitz

The Wealth of Neighborhoods

Squeezed Out: The Plight of the Middle Class

Fighting Feudal Taxes

Return Oil Profits to American People

Another World is Possible

Top Ten Bold Ideas for Progressives

Who is Going to Own the New New Orleans?

Taxing Wealth At The Very Top

You Say You Want a Revolution

Retirement Crisis: Real or Imagined

Our Updated Challenge: Building the (Co-) Ownership Society

Time to Get Serious about Inequality and Sustainability

Building an America Beyond Capitalism

The New Ownership Society

America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy

A Real Ownership Society

The Progressive Tax Revolt–and the Possibility of a Progressive Ownership Society

A Rich Country Can be More Generous

Moral Outrage About Social Security

Making a Place for Community

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

 



Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is a Founding Principal of The Democracy Collaborative. He is a former Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard and King's College of Cambridge University. He has 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. Earlier he was President of the Center for Community Economic Development, Co-Director of The Cambridge Institute, and President of the Center for the Study of Public Policy. Dr. Alperovitz's numerous articles have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to The Journal of Economic Issues, Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History, and other academic and popular journals. Dr. Alperovitz is also author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, published in 1995, and the 2002 book, Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio).