The Next System Project’s Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that the Federal Reserve should use quantitive easing, i.e. create money, to take Big Oil companies out of the equation and finance a massive ...

Gar Alperovitz is a historian and political economist. He is the author most recently of \_What Then Must We Do?\_—a book about democratized economic institutions that suggest possibilities for ...

Gar Alperovitz believes that there’s a crisis in America, but it’s not a political crisis — it’s a crisis with the economic system itself. Alperovitz is the co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, ...

Mr. Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that President Truman used the A-bomb to make a “diplomatic” point to the Soviet Union, not out of military necessity PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The ...

A couple of weeks ago, a wonky data visualization became a viral sensation. Titled “Wealth Inequality in America,” it provided a stark illustration of the distribution of wealth in this country. While ...

And historian Gar Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak the Pentagon Papers to journalists.

Daniel Ellsberg and Gar Alperovitz spoke at a panel discussion hosted by the Political Economy Research Institute Monday night. This was the first time Ellsberg and Alperovitz have appeared together ...

For those whose life involves a continuous dialogue between insights from their religious tradition and the seemingly intractable problems of the political-social-economic world, and who seek to ...

From their inception, most New Left movements of the Sixties offered a radically democratic vision of America’s future – critical not only of capitalism, then in its supposed golden age, but also of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Gar Alperovitz was a Professor for Political Economy in the University of Maryland, College Park with 11 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1988 ...