Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz
Photograph of political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz
Born	(1936-05-05) May 5, 1936 (age 88) Racine, Wisconsin
Alma mater	B.S.: University of Wisconsin M.A.: University of California, Berkeley Ph.D.: University of Cambridge
Occupation	Co-Chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative
Notable work	The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb America Beyond Capitalism Unjust Deserts
Website	garalperovitz.com

Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution; and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics from 1999 to 2015. 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 distinguished lecturer with the American Historical Society, co-founded the Democracy Collaborative and co-chairs its Next System Project with James Gustav Speth.