Office: 3140 Tydings or Morrill Hall
Email: garalper@ncesa.org
Website: http://garalperovitz.com/

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Alperovitz was previously Harrison Research Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and became the first Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy in July 1999. He is one of the founding principals of The Democracy Collaborative. He is also one of the founders of the Committee for the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS).

Dr. Alperovitz also serves as President of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives. Previously he was a Fellow of King's College at Cambridge University, a founding Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a Guest Professor at Notre Dame University. He has also 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 was a Marshall Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow; and was one of five specially designated Phi Beta Kappa Fellows selected at the time of the national bicentennial commemoration.

Education

• Ph.D., Cambridge University, UK, 1964 
• M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1960
• B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1959 

Research Interests

Community-based political-economic development, including especially new institutions of wealth ownership; political-economic theory, including system-wide political-economic design particularly as related to normative issues of equality, democracy, liberty, community and ecological sustainability; local, state and national policy approaches to community stability in the era of globalization; the history and future of nuclear weapons; arms control and disarmament strategies, including work on the conditions of peace and related long term political economic structural change. 

Classes

• GVPT 419H: The Good Society in the New Century: Introduction to Alternative Political-Economic Sytems
• GVPT 860: The Democratic State

Dr. Alperovitz's numerous articles have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to International Security, Journal of Economic Issues, Technology Review, Social Policy, Foreign Policy, Wharton Magazine, Diplomatic History, and many other academic and popular journals. He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine and featured in television presentations including Wall Street Week, CrossFire, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Larry King Live, The Charlie Rose Show, Sunday "Today," and Meet the Press. His work has also been the subject of a special BBC documentary. A few selected publications in popular and other journals indicate topics of current and ongoing interest:

• “The Cleveland Model”, with Ted Howard and Thad Williamson, The Nation, March 1, 2010.
• “Who Is Really ‘Deserving’? Inequality and the Ethics of Social Inheritance,” with Lew Daly, Dissent, Fall 2009, pp. 89-91.
• “Another World Is Possible”, Mother Jones, January/February 2006.
• “You Say You Want a Revolution?” WorldWatch Magazine, November/December 2005, pp. 18-22.
• “Our Updated Challenge: Building the (Co-) Ownership Society”, an Interview with Gar Alperovitz, Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer 2005, pp. 22-30.
• “Hiroshima After 60 Years: The Debate Continues,” Common Dreams, August 3, 2005.
• “The Next Wave: Building a University Civic Engagement Service for the Twenty-First Century,” with Ted Howard, Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Volume 10, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 141-157.
• “America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy,” Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly, Volume 25, number 1/2 (winter spring /05), pp. 23-35.
• “A Rich Country can be More Generous,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 27, 2005.
• "Rethinking the Foundations of the Next Progressive Vision: Confronting the Central Challenge of Wealth," Tikkun, January/February 2005.
• "An Asset-based Community Development Paradigm for Twenty First Century Development," Prepared for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Winter 2003.
• "Cross Sectoral Economic-Related Institutional Innovation," Paper Prepared for the Aspen Institute, 2003.
• "Local Policy Responses to Globalization: Place-Based Ownership Models of Economic Enterprise," with David L. Imbroscio and Thad Williamson, Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 31, Issue 1 (2003).
• "Remember the Gulf of Tonkin," The Washington Post, September 22, 2002.  
• "On Liberty," Boston Review, October/November 2000.  
• "Tarnished God," Review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix, The Washington Post, September 3, 2000.
• "Progressives and The Return of Capital," review of The Stakeholder Society by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, Lingua Franca, April 1999.
• "Who Owns Capital," Boston Review, February/March 1999.
• Review of Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan by J. Samuel Walker, Journal of American History, December 1998.