Gar Alperovitz is author of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, about democratizing wealth and empowering communities through worker-ownership, co-ops, community land trusts, decentralizing control, and many other strategies. Gar draws on personal experience in Washington as a legislative director in both houses of Congress, and as a special assistant in the State Dept, in addition to his extensive academic knowledge & research as a professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and as a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; Harvards Institute of Politics; the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Featured Music: The Corporate Welfare Song - Anne Feeney Books by Gar Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism Cold War Essays The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam Gar Alperovitz co-wrote and edited: Unjust Deserts: Wealth and Equality in the Knowledge Economy (with Lew Daly) Making a Place for Community with Thad Williamson & David Imbroscio) American Economic Policy: Problems and Prospects Strategy and Program: Two Essays toward a New American Socialism Rebuilding America: A Blueprint for the New Economy

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