Alperovitz, Gar

Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political-Economy at the

University of Maryland and a Founding Principal of the Democracy

Collaborative, an organization devoted to developing community

wealth-building approaches to local and national democratic

reconstruction. Alperovitz is a former Fellow of Kings College,

Cambridge University, of the Institute of Politics at Harvard, and of

the Institute for Policy Studies; he was also a Guest Scholar at the

Brookings Institution. He received his Ph.D. in Political-Economy as a

Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University.

Alperovitz served

previously as a Legislative Director for Rep. Robert Kastenmeir (WI) as

well as for Earth Day Founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson (WI), and as a

Special Assistant concerned with United Nations issues in the Department

of State. He was also Chief Economic Adviser to a coalition of 135

Members of Congress led by Rep. Richard Ottinger. Alperovitz lectures

widely; his most recent book is Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking

Our Common Inheritance (with Lew Daly).