Gar Alperovitz
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Photograph of political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz
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| Born | May 5, 1936 |
| Alma mater | B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park |
| Notable work | 2008 Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance 2003 "Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era" (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio) 1984 Rebuilding America(with Staughton Lynd) |
| Website | garalperovitz |
Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is an American political economist and historian. He was the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics from 1999 to 2015. Alperovitz was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. 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 member of the board of directors for the New Economics Institute and a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative. As of April 2015, he serves on the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States as "New Economy Advisor to the President".
Alperovitz's 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.
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