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He is a former Fellow of King's College , Cambridge ; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution . Alperovitz also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S.¹ Alperovitz is a political economist and revisionist historian whose numerous articles have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , The New Republic , The Nation , and The Atlantic among other publications. Alperovitz has been profiled by The New York Times , the Associated Press, People , UPI, and Mother Jones and has been a guest on numerous network TV and cable news programs, including Meet the Press , Larry King Live , The Charlie Rose Show , Crossfire , and The O'Reilly Factor . Alperovitz is the author of critically acclaimed books on the atomic bomb and atomic diplomacy and was named "Distinguished Finalist" for the Lionel Gelber Prize for The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb , (Knopf, 1995). The Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back , with Lew Daly , published in 2008. Today his research interests include : community-based political-economic development, and in particular new institutions of community 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. Several recent articles include ' Another World is Possible ' published recently in Mother Jones , ' A Top Ten List of Bold New Ideas ' published recently in The Nation and ' You Say You Want a Revolution? ' in WorldWatch .²

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Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative . He has been the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics since 1999 and will retire in 2015. Alperovitz is a former Fellow of King's College , Cambridge ; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution . He also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. Alperovitz is a member of the board of directors for the New Economics Institute . As of April 2015, he serves on the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States as "New Economy Advisor to the President".

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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 .

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American historian and economist 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 .

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