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11/07/2014 GAR ALPEROVITZ
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
PERSONAL
Marital Status: Married, two children
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin B.S. 1959
(American History)
University of California, Berkeley M.A. 1960
(Economics)
Cambridge University, U.K. Ph.D. 1964
(Political-Economy)
EDUCATIONAL AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, ETC.
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi
Marshall Scholar
(Kings College, Cambridge University;
London School of Economics)
King's College, Cambridge University
Winner, Fellowship Competition
Peterhouse College, Cambridge University
Winner, Fellowship Competition
Guggenheim Fellowship
Phi Beta Kappa Bicentennial Fellowship
Lionel Gelber Prize, Distinguished Finalist
[The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb]
Selected as Fellow of the Center for the Study
of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School
(Declined in order to accept appointment as Lionel
R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy)
Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Community Economic
Development, Michigan State University Center for Urban
Affairs, June 2003
Appointed as Organization of American Historians
Distinguished Lecturer, 2000-
POSITIONS HELD
Academic/Research:
Fellow, King's College 1964-1968
Cambridge University
Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution 1966-1967
Washington, D.C.
Fellow, Harvard University 1966-1968
Institute of Politics
Non-Resident Fellow, Institute 1966-1975
for Policy Studies
Washington, D.C.
President, 1968-1971
Center for Community Economic Development
Cambridge, Mass.
President, 1968-1971
Center for the Study of Public Policy
Cambridge, Mass.
President/Director, 1972-1983
National Center for Economic Alternatives
Washington, D.C.
President, National Center for Economic 1983-
and Security Alternatives, Washington, D.C.
Senior Research Scientist, Department of 1992-1996
Government and Politics, College of
Behavioral and Social Sciences,
University of Maryland
Harrison Research Professor, Department of 1996-1999
Government and Politics, College of
Behavioral and Social Sciences,
University of Maryland
Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy, 1999-2014
Department of Government and Politics,
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences,
University of Maryland
Co-founder and Principal, 2000-
The Democracy Collaborative
Government/Public Policy:
Legislative Assistant, 1961-1962
U.S. House of Representatives
(Rep. Robert Kastenmeier)
Legislative Director, U.S. Senate 1964-1965
(Senator Gaylord Nelson)
Special Assistant, U.S. State Department 1965-1966
(Policy planning, United Nations;
Office of Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organizations. Rank:FSR-1, GS-18 equivalent.)
Senior Economic Policy Adviser, 1983-1985
National Economic Recovery Project
(154 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives)
Books:
Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1965).
Foreign editions: German, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian, Swedish, British.
2nd Edition (New York: Viking Penguin, 1985).
Containing new introduction and literature review with
additional annexes
Foreign editions: British
3rd Edition (Colorado: Pluto Press, 1994).
Containing new introduction and revisions.
Foreign editions: British
Cold War Essays, with an Introduction by Christopher Lasch,
(New York: Doubleday, 1970).
Strategy and Program, with S. Lynd,(Boston: Beacon
Press, 1973).
Rebuilding America, with J. Faux, (New York: Pantheon,
1984).
American Economic Policy, ed. with R. Skurski,(Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1984).
The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of
an American Myth, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).
Foreign editions: German, Japanese, Korean, British.
The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb, (New York:
Vintage Books, 1996). British edition (Harper
Collins).
Making a Place for Community, with D. Imbroscio and T.
Williamson (New York: Routledge, 2002).
America Beyond Capitalism, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons,
October 2004).
2nd Edition (Washington, D.C. and Boston, MA:
Democracy Collaborative Press and Dollars & Sense,
2011). Containing new introduction and preface.
Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving
Social and Economic Problems, (Washington, D.C.: The
Aspen Institute), April 2005. (Democracy Collaborative
Report, under the direction of Gar Alperovitz)
Unjust Deserts: (Wealth and Inequality in the Knowledge
Economy), with Lew Daly (New York: The New Press,
2008)
Climate Change, Community Stability, and the Next 150
Million Americans, with Thad Williamson and
Steve Dubb (Democracy Collaborative Report 2010)
Rebuilding America‟s Communities: A Comprehensive Community
Wealth Building Federal Policy Proposal,
with Steve Dubb and Ted Howard (Democracy
Collaborative Report 2010).
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next
American Revolution,(White River Junction, VT: Chelsea
Green Publishing, May 2013).
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-
Nature, with Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Joshua
Farley, Carol Franco, Tim Jackson, Ida Kubiszewski,
Juliet Schor, and Peter Victor, Report to the United
Nations for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference (Australian
National University E Press: Canberra, Australia,
2013).
MAJOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION RELATED TO BOOKS AND OTHER KEY WORK
Television\Radio:
"Meet the Press"
"Larry King Live"
"Sunday NBC Today"
"Charlie Rose"
NPR “All Things Considered"
NPR “Talk of the Nation”
"Wall Street Week"
"MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" (Repeat appearances)
"The Advocates"
"Cross-Fire"
"The O'Reilly Factor"
"It's Your Business" (Repeated appearances, opposite,
among others, Rep. Jack Kemp, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
President Richard Lesher, etc.)
C-Span “Washington Journal”
Numerous television documentaries on nuclear weapons
and the decision to use the atomic bomb have drawn
heavily or primarily on my work, including: ABC, BBC
(2), NHK-Japan, Asahi, Clark Television, and German
National Television. One of the two BBC “Specials” here
noted focused entirely on my work and career.
Numerous interviews on ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and CNN news
programs
Related: The Metropolitan Opera in 2008 produced “Dr.
Atomic,” an opera which drew heavily and explicitly on
my work.
Articles, Reviews, Essays, Contributions to Books (Selected
Public and Academic)*:
"Leaderless Liberals," with Kim Willenson, The Nation,
September 8, 1962.
"Minimum Solution for Berlin," The New Republic, December
29, 1962.
"Why We Dropped the Bomb," The Progressive, August, 1965.
"The Double Dealer," review-essay on The Secret Surrender,
by Allen W. Dulles, The New York Review of Books,
September 8, 1966.
Letter Exchange on the Beginnings of the Cold War, with
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The New York Review of Books,
October 20, 1966.
"How Did the Cold War Begin?," review-essay on Beginnings of
the Cold War, by Martin F. Herz, The New York Review of
Books, March 23, 1967.
"The Trump Card," review-essay on The Atomic Bomb and the
End of World War II, by Herbert Feis, The New York
Review of Books, June 15, 1967.
* [*
indicates items co-authored with Jeff Faux]
Letter Exchange on the bombing of Hiroshima, with Herbert
Feis, The New York Review of Books, August 3, 1967.
"End to Intervention," Atlantic Monthly, June, 1968.
"American Stakes Abroad," review of Intervention and
Revolution, by Richard J. Barnet, The New York Times
Book Review, November 24, 1968.
"Community Economic Self-Help," Current, May, 1969.
"The History of Atomic Diplomacy," in March 4: Scientists,
Students, and Society, Jonathan Allen, ed.
(Massachusetts Institutes of Technology Press, 1970).
"The Beginning of the Cold War," in From Confrontation to
Containment: America, Russia and the Evolution of the
Cold War, (republication) Richard H. Miller, ed. (New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
Review of After the Planners, by Robert Goodman, The New
York Times Book Review, February 6, 1972.
"How the Cold War Began," in Issues in Western Civilization,
Vol. II, (republication) Leon Apt, ed. (Holbrook Press,
Inc., 1972).
"Why We Dropped the Bomb," in The Shaping of American
Civilization, Vol. II, ed., David H. Fowler, et. al.
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1972).
Response (on Cold War historiography) to Robert Maddox,
Journal of American History, March, 1973.
Comment (on the origins of the Cold War), The New York Times
Book Review, June 17, 1973.
"Notes Toward a Pluralist Commonwealth," in Exploring
Contradictions: Political Economy in the Corporate
State, (republication) ed., Phillip Brenner, et. al.
(New York: McKay and Company, 1974).
"The Economy: What Kind of Planning?" Working Papers, Fall,
1975.*
"An Economic Program for the Coming Decade," Democratic
Review, November, 1975.*
"Full Employment Policy: An Examination of Its
Implications," testimony before the Joint Economic
Committee, U.S. Congress, December 10, 1975.
"Planning I: Our Future: Centralization or
Decentralization?" The New York Times, January 5,
1976.*
"Planning II: Laying a Foundation for Solving National
Problems," The New York Times, January 6, 1976.*
"Citizen-Based Planning and Economic Progress," testimony
before the Panel on Environmental Science and
Technology of the Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution, hearings on "Choosing our Environment: Can
We Anticipate the Future?" Committee on Public Works,
U.S. Senate, February 27, 1976.
"Can We Have Full Employment Without Inflation?" Challenge,
March/April, 1976. (Symposium with Walter Heller and
Charles Walker.)*
"After the Corporation," The New York Times, June 28, 1976.*
"Once More With Planning," Business and Society Review,
Winter, 1976/1977.*
"Energy, Capital and Socialism," a review of The Poverty of
Power, by Barry Commoner, Social Policy,
January/February 1977.
"The Employment Act and the President's Economic Stimulus
Proposals," testimony before Committee on Education and
Labor, Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities, U.S.
House of Representatives, February 10, 1977.
"Introduction," to "Understanding the New Inflation: The
Importance of the Basic Necessities," study by Leslie
Nulty, The Exploratory Project for Economic
Alternatives, Washington, D.C., 1977.*
"Is the Corporate State a Menace or Pure Myth? Pursuit of
Profits Comes Before Society's Needs," with Richard
Barnet, Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1977.
"Building a Democratic Economy," The Progressive, July,
1977.*
"Alarming Signs," with Richard Barnet, The Wharton Magazine,
Summer, 1977.
"Changing American Economy," Current, September, 1977.*
"Introduction," to "The Costs of Continued Unemployment,"
study by Steven Sheffrin, The Exploratory Project for
Economic Alternatives, Washington, D.C., 1977.*
"Youngstown Lessons," The New York Times, November 3, 1977.*
"Economic Planning: Authoritarian or Democratic?" Executive
Magazine, March, 1978.*
"Full Employment With a Different Focus," The New York
Times, April 15, 1978.
"Towards a New Economic Strategy," testimony before Joint
Hearing of the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and
Employment and the Subcommittee on Human Services of
the Select Committee on Aging, House of
Representatives, May 3, 1978.
"The Youngstown Experience," Challenge, July/August, 1978.
"The Economics of Urban Reconstruction," Church and Society,
published by the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.,
July/August, 1978.*
"Against Inflation: A Progressive Agenda," People and Taxes,
August, 1978.*
"Final Summary Report: Youngstown Demonstration Planning
Project," The National Center for Economic
Alternatives, Washington, D.C., September, 1978.*
"On the Real Sources of Inflation," testimony at hearings on
"The Cost of Government Regulation," before the
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Sub-
Committee on the Consumer, U.S. Senate, November 21,
1978.
"Maximizing Public Profit," Social Policy,
November/December, 1978.*
"Of Football, Inflation and Coaches," The Washington Star,
February 3, 1979.*
"Adequacy of Administration's Anti-Inflation Program,"
testimony before the Committee on Government
Operations, Sub-Committee on Commerce, Consumer and
Monetary Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives,
February 5, 1979.
"For a National Teach-In On Economics," The New York Times,
February 25, 1979.*
"A Sectoral Anti-Inflation Policy," testimony before the
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Sub-
Committee on Economic Stabilization, U.S. Senate, March
23, 1979.
"Ideology at the Check-out Counter," Social Policy,
March/April, 1979.*
"Controlling the New Inflation," Adherent, May, 1979.*
"Impact of Inflation on the Economy," testimony before the
Task Force on Inflation, Budget Committee, U.S. House
of Representatives, June 18, 1979.
"Controlling Inflation in the Necessity Sectors," testimony
at hearings on "The 1979 Mid-Year Review of the
Economy," before the Joint Economic Committee, U.S.
Congress, June 28, 1979.
"Focus on Inflation," Consumer Report, August, 1979.*
"Introduction," to "Towards a Public Balance Sheet:
Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Community
Stabilization," study by David Smith, The National
Center for Economic Alternatives, Washington, D.C.,
1979.*
"Neighborhoods for a Democratic Society," Social Policy,
September/October, 1979.*
"Three Economists Give Their Views on What's Ahead:
Inflation Lingers, Recession Looms, More Energy
Troubles," with Alfred Kahn and Marvin Kosters, The New
York Times Week In Review, November 25, 1979.
"When Steel Goes Cold," The New York Times, December 12,
1979.*
"Introduction," to "Workplace Democracy and Productivity,"
study by Karl Frieden, The National Center for Economic
Alternatives, Washington, D.C., 1980.*
"How Not to Fight Inflation," The Washington Post, March 9,
1980.*
"Confronting New Forms of Inflation," National Consumers
League, March/April, 1980.*
Review of Decade of Decision, by Michael Harrington, in The
New Republic, April 14, 1980.*
"Confronting the True Agenda," The Wharton Magazine, Spring,
1980.*
"Symbolist Economics," Social Policy, May/June, 1980.*
"Controls and the Basic Necessities," Challenge, May/June,
1980.*
"When the Pendulum Swings," Executive Magazine, July, 1980.
"Who Is to Take Which Bitter Pill?" The New York Times,
August 4, 1980.*
"An Equitable Approach to High Energy Costs," in High Energy
Costs: Assessing the Burden, ed., H. Lansberg and J.
Dukert, Brookings-Resources for the Future, Washington,
D.C., 1980.
"Needed: Wage-Price Controls," The Nation, November 29,
1980.*
"Introduction," to "Small Business: New Directions for the
1980s," study by James Morrison, The National Center
for Economic Alternatives, Washington, D.C., 1980.*
"Reindustrialization--Conservative Chic," Social Policy,
November/December, 1980.*
"Beyond Bailouts: Notes for the Next Time," Working Papers,
November/December, 1980.*
"Youngstown Demonstration Planning Project" (Excerpts), in
Workplace Democracy and Social Change, ed., Frank
Lindenfeld and Joyce Rothschild-Whitte (Porter Sargent,
1980).*
"An Alternative Policy to Prevent Dunkirk," The New York
Times, January 7, 1981.*
"Issues of Long Term Stability: Asking the Tough Questions
About Industrial Policy and Reindustrialization," in
Committee Print No. 97-P, Committee on Energy and
Commerce, Sub-Committee on Oversight and
Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives, 1981.
"Necessities Inflation, Once Again, Missing the Point," a
reply to Joseph Minarik, Challenge, January/February
1981.*
"Anteckningar pa vagen till ett pluralistiskt forbund," in
Valfard-och Sedan?, ed. Nordal Akerman, Raben &
Sjogren, Stockholm, 1981.
"Marching to Dunkirk," New Republic, February 21, 1981.*
"Reindustrialization," Current, March/April, 1981.*
"The Budget and the Economy," Christianity and Crisis, April
3, 1981.*
"Energy Policy, Overall Stability, and Economic Planning,"
testimony at hearing on "Capital Formation and
Industrial Policy," before the Committee on Energy and
Commerce, Sub-Committee on Oversight and
Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives, April
27, 1981.
"Beyond Voodoo Economics," Executive, Summer, 1981.
"The New Inflation," The Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science: Social Effects of
Inflation, July, 1981.
"When the Pendulum Swings," in Committee Print No. 97-P,
Committee on Energy and Commerce, Sub-Committee on
Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House of
Representatives, 1981.*
"Full Production, Local Stability," The New York Times,
March 31, 1982.*
"Futuras orientaciones de la economia de los Estados
Unidos," Ilustre Colegio Central de Titulares
Mercantiles: Technica Economica, Tomo I [1982], pp. 69-
76.
"Beyond Economic Illusion," The New York Times, January 25,
1983.
"Recession and Instability in Historical Perspective,"
testimony, hearings on "Unemployment and its Underlying
Causes," before the Education and Labor Committee, Sub-
Committee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational
Education, U.S. House of Representatives, February 3,
1983.
"Social Justice and the New Inflation," in New Directions in
Economic Justice, Roger Skurski, ed, University of
Notre Dame Press, 1983.
"Coping With Recession," Dissent, Spring, 1983.
"1970's Economic Rerun?" The New York Times, October 16,
1983.
"The Failure of Reaganomics," testimony, hearings on "The
1984 Economic Report of the President," before the
Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, February 22,
1984.
"On Community Economic Stability," review of The Fight
Against Shutdowns, by Staughton Lynd, Social Thought,
Spring 1984.
"Planning for Sustained Community," in Catholic Social
Teaching and U.S. Economy, ed. J. Houck and O.
Williams, University Press of America, 1984.
"Is the Trade Emperor Still Wearing Clothes?" testimony,
hearings on "Free Trade--Myth or Reality?" before the
Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on
International Economic Policy, U.S. Senate, June 27,
1984.
"Forget Today's Fleeting Fashions--We Really Need More
Government, Not Less," The Washington Post, "Outlook,"
October 7, 1984.*
"Comment," on "Managing the Government Deficit and Business
Cycle," papers by Benjamin M. Friedman and Robert J.
Gordon, in Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth, M.
and S. Wachter, ed. University of Pennsylvania Press,
1984.
"Brief, Amicus Curiae," with Robert Lekachman, in the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, American
Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees,
et. al., v. State of Washington, et. al., (Comparable
Worth) 1984.
"Introduction," to "Policies to Improve the Trade-off
Between Inflation and Unemployment: An Econometric
Simulation Study," by Lawrence R. Klein, et. al.,
Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates,
Philadelphia, Penn., December 20, 1984.
"Did America Have to Drop the Bomb?" The Washington Post
Outlook, August 4, 1985.
"Hiroshima Remembered: The U.S. Was Wrong," The New York
Times, August 4, 1985.
"The Hiroshima Decision: An Introduction to Atomic
Diplomacy," Sojourners, August-September, 1985.
"Political-Economics for the Next Century," Sojourners,
November, 1985.
"More on Atomic Diplomacy," Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, December, 1985.
"The Christian War for the Economy," L.A. Weekly, December
13-19, 1985.
"No More Rich Uncle to Rich Allies," The New York Times,
February 21, 1986.
"The Coming Break in Liberal Consciousness," Christianity
and Crisis, March 3, 1986.
"America's Europe Problem: Naked NATO," The New Republic,
September 29, 1986.
"Beyond Heartfelt Habits," review of Habits of the Heart, by
Robert Bellah, et. al., Sojourners, October 9, 1986.
"Government Involvement Is Essential for a Strong Economy,"
in Economics in America, ed. Terry O'Neill, et. al.,
Greenhaven Press, 1986.*
"Towards a Tough-Minded Populism," in The New Populism: The
Politics of Empowerment, ed. H. Boyte and F. Riessman,
Temple University Press, 1987.
"Too Quiet, `Post-Reagan' Talk," The New York Times,
February 12, 1987.
"Ready for a New Era? The Old Framework Is Gone,"
Christianity and Crisis, March 2, 1987.
"A Step in From the Cold," Boston Sunday Globe, December 13,
1987.
"The Common Good and the Emerging Longer Term Historical
Context," in U.S. Capitalism and the Common Good, ed.
J. Houck and O. Williams, University Press of America,
1987.
"Introduction," to The Rise of Conservative Capitalism in
Great Britain and the United States, by Kenneth Hoover
and Raymond Plant, Methuen, 1987.
"In an Irrational Economy: Seeds of Hope," Community
Economics, Winter 1988.
"Politics... and Beyond. Impasse and Vision at the End of a
Millenium," Christianity and Crisis, April 4, 1988.
"`Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?': An Exchange," letter exchange
with Stanley Hoffmann, The New York Review of Books,
April 27, 1989.
"Did We Have to Drop the Bomb?" The New York Times, August
3, 1989.
"Atomic Diplomacy," The Listener, August 10, 1989.
"Building a Living Democracy," Sojourners, July 1990.
"Das Problem deutscher Selbstkontrolle Ein Gespräch," with
Richard J. Barnet, Norman Birnbaum and Marcus G.
Raskin, Blätter für deutsche und internationale
Politik, July 1990.
"Why the U.S. Dropped the Bomb," The Miami Herald, August 5,
1990.
"Why We Dropped the Bomb," San Jose Mercury News, August 5,
1990.
"Why We Nuked Japan," The Sacramento Bee, August 19, 1990.
"Les Véritables Raisons de la Destruction d'Hiroshima," Le
Monde Diplomatique, August 20, 1990.
"Why The United States Dropped the Bomb," Technology Review,
August/September 1990.
"An Interview with Dr. Gar Alperovitz," Asahi Shimbun Extra
Report and Analysis, October 2, 1990.
"Focusing Our Varied Visions: Further Reflections on an
Alternative Economic System," Sojourners, February-
March, 1991.
"Hiroshima Revisited," author response, Technology Review,
January 1991.
"A Different Future: Democracy, Security, Community, Time,"
Christianity and Crisis, February 4, 1991.
"What the War Says about Us," The Progressive, April 1991.
"Confronting Recession Confusion," Sojourners, April 1991.
“Socialism Based in Community,” The Nation, April 22, 1991.
"What We Now Know on Bombing Hiroshima," The Houston Post,
December 21, 1991.
"Marshall, Truman, and the Decision to Drop the Bomb," with
Robert L. Messer, International Security, Winter
1991/92.
"Dream of Total Disarmament Could Become a Reality," with
Kai Bird, Los Angeles Times, January 12, 1992.
"The Hiroshima Decision: A Moral Reassessment," Christianity
and Crisis, February 3, 1992.
"Facing Up to Economic Stagnation," Technology Review,
February/March 1992.
"Bogged Down: Why This Economy May Never Get Going," The
Washington Post, April 12, 1992.
"Wanted: Bold Leadership to Reduce Nuclear Arsenals," with
Kai Bird, The Miami Herald, April 26, 1992.
"The Logic of Disarmament," with Kai Bird, Institute for
Policy Studies Briefing Paper, May 1992.
"The Fading of the Cold War--and the Demystification of
Twentieth Century Issues," with Kai Bird, Diplomatic
History, Spring 1992.
"Step One for Christians: Working for the Abolition of
Nuclear Weapons. An Interview with Gar Alperovitz."
World Peacemakers Quarterly, Easter 1992.
"Was Hiroshima Needed to End the War?" with Kai Bird, The
Christian Science Monitor, August 6, 1992.
"An Interview with Gar Alperovitz," Koinonia, August 1992.
"Organizations, Occupations and Work: A Future for the
American Economy: The Social Market by Severyn T.
Bruyn," review, Contemporary Sociology, September 1992.
"Memorandum to President-elect Clinton," Tikkun,
November/December 1992.
"Ameristroika Is the Answer: How to Really Share the Wealth
With Employee-Owned Firms," The Washington Post,
December 13, 1992.
"The Economic Summit Won't Matter," The New York Times,
December 16, 1992.
"Conditions, Not Policy, Alter Economy," The Plain Dealer,
December 21, 1992.
"Beyond Socialism and Capitalism," in Paradigms Lost, ed.
Chester Hartman and Pedro Vilanova, Pluto Press, 1992.
"The Fading of the Cold War--and the Demystification of
Twentieth Century Issues," with Kai Bird, in The End of
the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications, ed. Michael
J. Hogan, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
"Clinton's Doomed Affair With the Free Market," New York
Newsday, February 28, 1993.
"Medicine with a Heart," Technology Review, April 1993.
"Giving Harry Hell," with Kai Bird, review of Truman by
David McCullough, The Nation, May 10, 1993.
"An End to Growth? Beyond the City vs. the Suburban Debate,"
Social Policy, Spring 1993.
"The Perils of Deficit Reduction," The Miami Herald, June
13, 1993.
"The Clintonomics Trap," The Progressive, June 1993.
"Clintonomics: Not Yet Out of the Desert," Sojourners, June
1993.
"Was the Cold War Necessary?" with Kai Bird, review of A
Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman
Administration, and the Cold War, by Melvyn P. Leffler,
Tikkun, July/August 1993.
"The Wrong Questions about Russia," The Miami Herald,
January 16, 1994.
"The Clinton Administration, the System, and Us," Tikkun,
January/February 1994.
"How Cities Make Money," The New York Times, February 10,
1994.
"Ending the Nuclear Threat: Buy Your Enemies' Bombs," Los
Angeles Times, February 13, 1994.
"The A-Bomb's Chain Reaction," with Kai Bird, Chicago
Tribune, April 6, 1994.
"Nuclear Secrets," review of James B. Conant: Harvard to
Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age by James G.
Hershberg, In These Times, May 30, 1994.
"The Centrality of the Bomb," with Kai Bird, Foreign Policy,
Spring 1994.
"Loading the Guns of August 1995," Chicago Tribune, August
9, 1994.
"Questioning Hiroshima," The Boston Globe, August 20, 1994.
"Beyond the Smithsonian Flap: Historians' New Consensus,"
The Washington Post, October 16, 1994.
"We Didn't Have to Drop the Bomb," The Wall Street Journal,
September 13, 1994.
"Distributing Our Technological Inheritance," Technology
Review, October 1994.
"Building a Living Democracy," Who is My Neighbor? Economics
as if Values Matter, a study guide from the editors of
Sojourners, 1994.
"The Onset and Persistence of Secular Stagnation," with
Harold Vatter and John Walker, Journal of Economic
Issues, June 1995.
"Hiroshima: Warum die Bombe zum Einsatz kam," Blätter für
deutsche und internationale Politik, July 1995.
"The Fire Still Burns: An Interview with Historian Gar
Alperovitz," Sojourners, July-August 1995.
"Hiroshima at Fifty," Tikkun, July/August 1995.
"Trumpfkart im Spiel gegen Stalin," Die Zeit, July 14, 1995.
"Hiroshima: Truman's Deceit," The Sunday Times, July 30,
1995.
"Was Bombing Hiroshima Right or Wrong? Dead Wrong: Japan Was
Ready to Surrender Anyway," USA Today, August 2, 1995.
"Gar Alperovitz on the Creation of the Hiroshima Myth,"
Asahi Shimbun Extra Report and Analysis, August 7,
1995.
"Hiroshima: Historians Reassess," Foreign Policy, Summer
1995.
"Hiroshima Pourquoi?" in Hiroshima 50 Ans, ed. Maya Morioka
Todeschini, Autrement Série Mémoires, September 1995.
"Sustainability and `the System Problem,'" The Good Society:
A PEGS Journal, Fall 1995.
"`The New War Over Hiroshima': An Exchange," letter exchange
with Robert Jay Lifton, Greg Mitchell, and Ian Buruma,
The New York Review of Books, November 30, 1995.
"Dropping the Bomb: An Exchange," letter exchange with
Donald Kagan and others, Commentary, December 1995.
"A Modest Proposal: Buy the Nukes," with Kai Bird and Thad
Williamson, The Nation, January 22, 1996.
"A Theory of Cold War Dynamics: U.S. Policy, Germany, and
the Bomb," The History Teacher, May 1996.
"The Reconstruction of Community Meaning," Tikkun, May/June
1996.
"Sustainability and `the System Problem,'" in Building
Sustainable Societies: A Blueprint for a Post-
Industrial World, ed. Dennis C. Pirages (Armonk, N.Y.:
M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
"Speculative Theory and Regime Alternatives: Beyond
Socialism and Capitalism," in The Constitution of Good
Societies, ed. Karol Edward Soltan and Stephen L. Elkin
(University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1996).
"Down and Out: A Nuclear Path," with Alex Campbell and Thad
Williamson, The Nation, December 30, 1996.
"Concerning the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb," H_Diplo,
an e-mail discussion list for diplomatic historians
(essay is posted on the web site:
http://www.h_net.msu.edu/~diplo/Alperovitz.htm),
February, 18, 1997.
"The Old Socialist Idea and the New Century," Peace Review,
1997.
"Introductory Essay," in What Comes Next: A Preliminary
Bibliography of Recent Proposals for a Different
Society, by Thad Williamson, 1998.
"Historians Reassess: Did We Need to Drop the Bomb?" in
Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History &
the Smithsonian Controversy, ed. Kai Bird and Lawrence
Lifschultz (Stony Brook, Conn.: The Pampleteer's Press,
1998).
"Was Harry Truman a Revisionist on Hiroshima?" The Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations
NEWSLETTER, June 1998.
"The Truman Show," Los Angeles Times, August 9, 1998.
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.
Letter exchange with Robert Maddox, The Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations NEWSLETTER,
December 1998.
"The Democratic State," with Steve Elkin, The Good Society,
1998.
"Ownership Solutions," review of The Ownership Solution by
Jeff Gates, YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, Winter
1998/99.
"The Use of the Atomic Bomb Was Unnecessary," in Encarta
Encyclopedia Deluxe (Seattle, WA: Microsoft, 1999);
CD_ROM.
Excerpt from Atomic Diplomacy, in Historical Moments:
Changing Intrepretations of America's Past, Vol. II,
2nd ed., ed. J. Mcclellan (Guilford, Conn.: McGraw-
Hill, 1999).
"Who Owns Capital," Boston Review, February/March 1999.
"The $80,000 Solution," review of The Stakeholder Society by
Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, Lingua Franca, April
1999.
"Is a Progressive Future Possible?" review of
Corporation/Nation by Charles Derber and Graceful
Simplicity by Jerome Segal, Tikkun, May/June 1999.
"Systemic Issues and Sustainability in the New Era," in
Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge and
Institutions, ed. Jonathan Harris (Ann Arbor, Mich.:
University of Michigan Press, 2000).
"Ecological Sustainability: Some Elements of Longer Term
System Change," with Alex Campbell and Thad Williamson,
in Nature, Production, Power: Towards an Ecological
Political Economy, ed. Fred P. Gale and R. Michael
M'Gonigle (Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2000).
Excerpt from Atomic Diplomacy, in An Age of Conflict:
Readings in Twentieth Century European History, ed.
Leslie Durfler and Patricia Kollander (Harcourt College
Publishers, 2000).
"Towards the Economic Stabilization of America's Urban
Communities: Policy and Institutional Alternatives in
the Global Era," with David Imbroscio and Thad
Williamson, paper presented at the 2000 Annual American
Political Science Association conference, August 31 _
September 3, 2000, Washington, D.C.
"Tarnished God," Review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern
Japan by Herbert P. Bix, The Washington Post, September
3, 2000.
"On Liberty," Boston Review, October/November 2000.
"On Liberty," in What's Wrong with a Free Lunch, ed.
Phillippe van Parijs (Beacon Press, 2001).
Foreword in “The Emerging New Society” by Kristin Rusch (The
Democracy Collaborative of the University of Maryland
and NCESA, 2001).
"Broadening Ownership Builds Stronger Communities,” Owners
At Work, Summer 2002.
"Remember the Gulf of Tonkin,” The Washington Post,
September 22, 2002.
"Capital Stability and Local Democracy," with Thad
Williamson and David Imbroscio, Dollars and Sense,
November/December 2002.
"Valuing Social Equity and Healthy Communities: Future
Resources," (interview) Nonprofit Quarterly, Winter
2002.
"Cross Sectoral Economic-Related Institutional Innovation,"
Paper Prepared for the Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector
Research Fund, 2003.
"Tax the Plutocrats,” The Nation, January 27, 2003.
"Local Policy Responses to Globalization: Place-Based
Ownership Models of Economic Enterprise,” with David L.
Imbroscio and Thad Williamson, Policy Studies Journal,
February 2003.
"The Triple Threat to Community,” with Thad Williamson and
David Imbroscio, Indicators, Spring 2003.
"Toward a New Politics of Place, " with Thad Williamson and
David Imbroscio, Community News & Views, Summer 2003 .
"Enola Gay: Was Using the Bomb Necessary?" The Miami Herald,
December 14, 2003.
“An Asset-Based Community-Building Paradigm for Twenty-First
Century Development”, Prepared for the Annie E. Casey
Foundation “Over the Horizon Series”, Winter 2003.
“The Coming Era of Wealth Taxation,” Dollars & Sense,
July/August 2004.
“The Coming Era of Wealth Taxation,” in The Wealth
Inequality Reader, ed. Dollars & Sense and United for a
Fair Economy, 2004.
“America Beyond Capitalism: What a „Pluralist Commonwealth‟
would look like,” Dollars & Sense, November/December
2004.
"Policy Support for Social Enterprise Development" with Ted
Howard and Steve Dubb, SPARC Change, [National Council
of NonProfit Associations, State Policy Action Resource
Center], Winter 2004-5, pp. 3-4.
“Rethinking the Foundations of the Next Progressive Vision:
Confronting the Central Challenge of Wealth,” Tikkun,
January/February 2005.
“Time for Moral Outrage About Social Security,”
CommonDreams.org, January 31, 2005.
“Taking the Offensive on Wealth,” The Nation, February 21,
2005
“What a Rich Nation Should Really Be Doing About Social
Security,” CommonDreams.org, February 8, 2005.
“The Centrality of the Atomic Bomb” with Kai Bird, in In
Democracy‟s Shadow, The Secret World of National
Security”, ed. Marcus Raskin and Carl LeVan, (New York:
Nation Books, 2005).
“A Rich Country can be More Generous,” Philadelphia
Inquirer, March 27, 2005.
“America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our
Liberty, and Our Democracy,” Philosophy & Public Policy
Quarterly, Volume 25, number 1/2, winter/spring 2005,
pp. 23-35.
“The Progressive Tax Revolt–and the Possibility of a
Progressive Ownership Society,” CommonDreams.org, May
10, 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.
“A Real Ownership Society,” TomPaine.commonsense, May 23,
2005.
“The New Ownership Society,” The Nation, June 27, 2005.
“Building An „America Beyond Capitalism‟, Gar Alperovitz‟
Message for Workplace Pioneers: A GEO dialogue on his
New Book,” GEO: Grassroots Economic Organizing, Issue
67, May-June 2005, pp. 3-5.
“A Dubious Advantage,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
July/August 2005, p. 59.
“Did the atomic bomb cost rather than save lives?”, Wartime:
60th anniversary of the end of the second world war,
Issue 31, pp. 23-25.
“Can Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima be justified?” BBC
History Magazine, August 2005, p. 24.
“Hiroshima After 60 Years: The Debate Continues,”
Commondreams.org, August 3, 2005.
“Evidence Shows Atomic Bombs Were Unnecessary,” Winona Daily
News, August 5, 2005.
“New Study -- U.S. didn't need A-bombs to defeat Japan,”
Providence Journal, August 6, 2005.
“No Need to Use A-Bomb,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, August
6, 2005.
“Research Challenges Hiroshima Strategy: Atomic bombs were
not needed to end WWII, publications say,” Philadelphia
Inquirer, August 7, 2005.
“Was Bombing Necessary to End the War?,” The Clarion-Ledger,
August 7, 2005.
“Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki Necessary?,” Fort Worth Star-
Telegram, August 7, 2005.
“Time to Get Serious about Inequality and Sustainability,”
Synthesis/Regeneration 38, Fall 2005, p.42.
“Retirement crisis: real or imagined?”, Yes! Magazine, Fall
2005, pp. 25-28.
Our Updated Challenge: Building the (Co-) Ownership
Society,” An interview with Gar Alperovitz, Nonprofit
Quarterly, Summer 2005, pp. 22-30
“Who is going to own the new New Orleans?”, The Progressive,
September 22, 2005.
“You Say You Want a Revolution?”, WorldWatch,
November/December 2005, pp. 18-22.
“A 'Top Ten' List of Bold Ideas”, The Nation, January 23,
2006.
“Taxing Wealth At The Very Top: Time For A Property Tax On
All Forms of Property...Starting Now, State by State”,
CommonDreams.org, January 14, 2006.
Commentary, “Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the
Surrender of Japan,” Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, H-Diplo
Roundtable, H-net (Humanities and Social Sciences
Online), January 18-20, 2007.
“Another World Is Possible”, Mother Jones, January/February
2006, pp. 66-69, 77.
“A Direct Stake In Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms”,
Vermont Commons, Number 10, February 2006.
“Return Oil Profits to American People”, The Baltimore Sun,
February 9, 2006.
“Imagine a world where ExxonMobil gives back”, Capitol
Times, Madison Wisconsin, February 6, 2006.
“Another World Is Possible”, Sentient Times, (Reprinted from
Mother Jones), February/March 2006, pp. 6-7.
“Fighting Feudal Taxes”, TomPaine, April 14, 2006
“The Wealth of Neighborhoods”, Democracy, Summer 2006, pp.
19-32.
“America Beyond Capitalism: What Pluralist Commonwealth
Would Look Like,” in Living a Life of Value, ed. Jason
A. Merchey (Value of the Wise Press, 2006), pp. 13-24
“Squeezed Out: The Plight of the Middle Class” The Christian
Century, January 2, 2007, pp. 26-29.
“California Split,” Op-Ed, The New York Times, February 10,
2007, A15.
“Asset Building Comes of Age,” with Steve Dubb and Ted
Howard, Shelterforce (from the National Housing
Institute), #149, Spring, 2007.
“America Beyond Capitalism,” a symposium in The Good Society
(Journal of the Committee on Political Economy of the
Good Society), 2007.
“The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki After Sixty Two
Years,” article in Kathimerini (Newspaper in Greece),
August, 2007.
“7 Cool Companies: The Best Alternatives to Corporate
Power,” with Steve Dubb and Ted Howard, Yes! Magazine,
Fall 2007.
"New Approaches Are Needed to Curb Poverty," with Steve Dubb
and Ted Howard, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November
15, 2007.
“The Next Wave: Building University Engagement for The 21st
Century,” Gar Alperovitz (with Steve Dubb, and Ted
Howard), The Good Society, Volume 17, Number 2, 2008,
pp. 60-75.
“Unjust Deserts: An Interview (written responses) with Gar
Alperovitz and Lew Daly,” Interviewed by James Lardner,
Dissent Upfront: Online Argument and Commentary
(Dissent), November 21, 2008.
“American Democracy: From Continental Empire to Pluralist
Commonwealth,” chapter in Democracy, States and the
Struggle for Global Justice, edited by Heather D.
Gautney, Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson,
Routledge 2009.
“America Beyond Capitalism: The Pluralist Commonwealth,” to
appear as a chapter in Economic Pluralism, edited by
Rob Garnett, Erik Olsen, and Martha Starr, Routledge
2009.
“Justice and Injustice: Ancient Wisdom and the Modern
Knowledge Economy,” Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly,
Tikkun, March-April 2009.
“Evergreen Cooperatives,” Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard, and
Steve Dubb, Yes! Magazine, Summer 2009.
“Who Is Really „Deserving‟? Inequality and the Ethics of
Social Inheritance,” Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly,
Dissent, Fall 2009, pp. 89-91.
"Using the Worker Co-op Model to Build Community Wealth,"
Gar Alperovitz and Steve Dubb, Cooperative Business
Journal, January/February 2010, p.6.
“The Cleveland Model,” Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard, and Thad
Williamson, The Nation, March 1, 2010.
“Community Stability and the Challenge of Climate Change,”
Gar Alperovitz and Thad Williamson, The Democracy
Collaborative, April 2010.
“The Undeserving Rich,” Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly, Dollars
and Sense, March-April 2010, pp.16-20.
“Reinvigorating the Theoretical Case for Redistribution in
the Knowledge Economy,” to appear as a chapter in
Property Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, edited by
Thad Williamson and Martin O‟Neill, to be published by
Blackwell-Wiley in 2011.
“We‟re Now Number 77 in Income Inequality,” Huffington Post,
June 9, 2010.
“Creating a Game Plan for the Transition to a Sustainable
U.S. Economy,” with Jeffrey Hollender, Christina
Asquith, Bill Becker, Robert Costanza, Elliot Hoffman,
Ellen Kahler, David Levine, Hunter Lovins, and
David Rapaport, June 11, 2010
“Can Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima be justified?” BBC
Knowledge Magazine, August 2010.
“Using the Atomic Bomb Against Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was
Not Justified,” The United States at War Academic
Database, September 2010.
“The Old Economy‟s Not Coming Back. So What‟s Next?” Yes!
Magazine, May 26, 2011.
“Gar Alperovitz: The Prehistory of the Next Possible
Progressive Era,” Truthout, June 2, 2011
“The New-Economy Movement,” The Nation, June 13, 2011.
“On the Sixty-Sixth Anniversary of the Bombing of
Hiroshima,” Common Dreams, August 6, 2011.
“The Emerging Paradoxical Possibility of a Democratic
Economy,” Review of Social Economy, Volume 69, Issue 3,
2011.
“„Kill The Messenger‟: New Book Examines How the Media Has
Perpetuated Both Good and Evil,” Review of Kill the
Messenger: The Media‟s Role in the Fate of the World by
Maria Armoudian, Alternet, September 27, 2011.
“Neither Revolution nor Reform: A New Shape for Progressive
Politics,” Dissent, Fall, 2011.
“Occupy the Banks: Strategies for Transformation,” Yes!
Magazine, October 28, 2011.
“How the 99 Percent Really Lost Out – in Far Greater Ways
Than the Occupy Protesters Imagine,” Truthout, October
29, 2011.
“Democratizing Wealth: Notes Toward an Evolutionary
Reconstruction of the American System,” Democracy
Collaborative (Takoma Park, MD: The Democracy
Collaborative Press, 2011).
“America Beyond Capitalism,” Dollars & Sense,
November/December, 2011.
“Capitalism fading in the evolutionary revolution,” Salon,
November 3, 2011.
“Move Your Money, Change the System,” Truthout, December 10,
2011.
“Worker-Owners of America, Unite!” New York Times, December
14, 2011.
“Economic Alternatives to Capitalism,” Interview with
Richard Wolff, TruthOut, February 21, 2012.
“New Thinking for City Finances,” The Baltimore Sun,
February 21, 2012.
“Our Co-Owned Future,” Yes! Magazine, March 2, 2012.
“From the atom bomb to attacking Iran? A leadership lesson
from our nuclear history,” Washington Post, March 7,
2012.
“Does Mark Zuckerberg Really Deserve All That Money?”
Alternet, March 9, 2012.
“Preventing the Fall of Rome,” Yes! Magazine, March 14,
2012.
“Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-
Nature,” with Robert Costanza et al., Division for
Sustainable Development of the United Nations
Department of Economics and Social Affairs, April 2012.
“Reconstructing America's Economic System Is Within Reach”
(Excerpt), TruthOut, April 3, 2012.
“Earth Day 2012: Environmental Movement at a Crossroads,”
Alternet, April 20, 2012.
“The Rise of the New Economy Movement,” Alternet, May 20,
2012.
“Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream,” with
Thomas M. Hanna, The Nation, May 22, 2012.
“How Big Banks Run the World - at Your Expense,” TruthOut,
June 8, 2012.
“America Beyond Capitalism: An "Evolutionary Reconstruction"
of the System Is Necessary and Possible” (Excerpt),
TruthOut, July 12, 2012.
“Total System Change: A Real-Life Look at Regional
Governance and Public Ownership” (Excerpt), TruthOut,
July 19, 2012.
“Wall Street Is Too Big to Regulate,” New York Times, July
22, 2012.
“It's Time to Lay the Groundwork for Radical, Systemic
Change” (Excerpt), TruthOut, July 27, 2012.
“More Bullish Than You Think,” Sojourners, August 2012.
“Change Will Occur” (Excerpt), TruthOut, August 2, 2012.
“Anchoring Wealth to Sustain Cities and Population Growth,”
with Steve Dubb and Thad Williamson, Solutions, vol. 4,
is. 3, July 2012.
“Drifting Away From Our Ideals" (Excerpt), TruthOut, August
9, 2012.
“Changing Wealth Ownership to Reduce Inequality" (Excerpt),
TruthOut, August 16, 2012.
“Democracy, From the Ground Up" (Excerpt), TruthOut, August
22, 2012.
“Can Corporations Be Made to Fit Democratic Theory and
Vision?" (Excerpt), TruthOut, August 30, 2012.
“Democracy: Is a Continent Too Big?” (Excerpt), TruthOut,
September 7, 2012.
“Gar Alperovitz: „The Pluralist Commonwealth‟” (Excerpt),
TruthOut, September 13, 2012.
“A Direct Stake in Economic Life” (Excerpt), TruthOut,
September 20, 2012.
“Enterprising Cities: Left, Right and Center” (Excerpt),
TruthOut, October 11, 2012.
“Democratizing Ownership: An Interview with Gar Alperovitz,”
Triple Pundit, October 12, 2012.
“Building Community: Neighborhoods and Nonprofits With a
Mission” (Excerpt), TruthOut, October 24, 2012.
“You‟re not the boss of me, now,” Interview, Real Change
News, vol. 19, no. 43, October 24, 2012.
“America Beyond Capitalism: State and National Innovators”
(Excerpt), TruthOut, November 1, 2012.
“The Democratization of Wealth and the Era of Deepening
Fiscal Crisis” (Excerpt), TruthOut, November 8, 2012.
“Is Local Democracy Possible in the Global Era?” (Excerpt),
TruthOut, November 15, 2012.
“Community, the Environment and the „Nonsexist City‟”
(Excerpt), TruthOut, November 29, 2012.
“Revealed: Wall Street Journal More Interested in Caviar and
Foie Gras Than Employee-owned Firms,” with Keane Bhatt,
Alternet, December 3, 2012.
“The Regional Restructuring of the American Continent”
(Excerpt), TruthOut, December 6, 2012.
“The 25-Hour Work Week” (Excerpt), TruthOut, December 13,
2012.
“Beyond Super-Elites and Conspicuous Consumption: Real
Ecological Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century”
(Excerpt), TruthOut, December 21, 2012.
“A Checkerboard Strategy for Regaining the Progressive
Initiative,” TruthOut, December 30, 2012.
“America Before Capitalism: Historical Perspective,”
Truthout, January 7, 2013.
“The Challenge of the Era of Technological Abundance,”
Truthout, January 11, 2013.
“6 Economic Steps to a Better Life and Real Prosperity for
All,” with Steve Dubb, AlterNet, January 15, 2013.
“Ownership, Full Employment and Community Economic
Stability,” Back to Full Employment Blog, January 23,
2013.
“Prospects for 2013,” New Left Project, January 25, 2013.
“Five Possibilities for the Next Great Progressive Push,”
with Steve Dubb, Common Dreams, February 1, 2013.
“Obama Forgot to Share Inspiration of Ohio's Worker-Owned
Business Revolution,” Truthout, February 18, 2013.
“Going outside the hospital walls to improve health,” with
David Zuckerman, The Baltimore Sun, February 28, 2013.
“The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up
in These United States,” Truthout, April 12, 2013.
“Marriage Equality Victories Show How Change Happens, One
Step at a Time,” Yes! Magazine, May 9, 2013.
“Everyday Socialism, American-Style, Is Happening Now,”
Truthout, May 14, 2013.
“Shocker: Republicans Fight Obama Plan to Privatize the
Hugely Popular, Cheap Energy Source of the TVA,” with
Thomas Hanna, AlterNet, May 19, 2013.
“The Legacy of the Boomer Boss,” The New York Times, July 5,
2013.
“A New Economic Model for Scotland,” with Robin Hahnel,
Sunday Herald, July 14, 2013.
“The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a
Community-Sustaining Economy,” with Steve Dubb, The
Good Society, Volume 22, Number 1, 2013.
“What Then Can I Do? Ten Ways to Democratize the Economy,”
with Keane Bhatt, Truthout, September 24, 2013.
“Five Years After the Big Bailout: Time to Begin Building a
„New Economy,‟” Common Dreams, October 3, 2013.
“How to Democratize the US Economy,” The Nation, October 8,
2013.
“The Next System Question and the New Economy Movement,”
Solutions, Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2013.
“Mondragón and the System Problem,” with Thomas Hanna,
Truthout, November 1, 2013.
“Forging a Transformative Vision,” Shelterforce, Fall/Winter
2013/14.
“Beyond the Dreamer,” Sojourner, January 2014.
“Nationalize Banks That Overwhelm Regulation,” The New York
Times, January 13, 2014.
“Musician Peter Buffett, Son of Famed Investor, Confronts
Gross Injustices of American Capitalism,” Alternet,
February 10, 2014.
“Gar Alperovitz and Michael Albert: A Conversation on
Economic Visions,” Truthout, March 21, 2014.
“Growth for growth‟s sake will kill us all,” AlJazeera
America, April 11, 2014.
“The Cooperative Economy,” (interview) Orion Magazine,
May/June and July/August 2014.
“America Has a Scary Sewage Problem: Let‟s Clean It Up and
Jumpstart the Economy While We‟re At It,” Alternet,
August 4, 2014.
“Is Worker Ownership a Way Forward for Market Basket?”
Truthout, August 11, 2014.
“Envisioning Where We Want to Go: An Interview With
Evolutionary Reconstructionist Gar Alperovitz,”
Truthout, August 22, 2014.
“Is economic stagnation the new normal?” Los Angeles Times,
September 4, 2014.
RECENT MEDIA APPEARANCES RELATED TO THE NEW ECONOMY, AMERICA
BEYOND CAPITALISM, AND WHAT THEN MUST WE DO?:
“Occupy Washington DC Discussion on the Economy,” C-SPAN,
November 9, 2011.
“The Marc Steiner Show,” WEAA, Baltimore, MD, November 10,
2011.
“Democracy Now” Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, CA, December 15,
2011.
“The Peter Werbe Show,” WRIF, Detroit, MI, December 16,
2011.
“The Morning Show with Carl Wolfson,” KPOJ, Portland, OR,
December 20, 2011.
“Inside Out Radio” Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, CA, December
20, 2011.
“The Rick Smith Show,” WHYL, Carlisle, PA, December 20,
2011.
“Journey Home,” KSFR/NPR, Santa Fe, NM, December 21, 2011.
“The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann,” RT TV, December 22,
2011.
“The Fairness Doctrine,” WDIS Boston/WWPR Tampa Bay/KSKQ,
Ashland, OR, December 22, 2011.
“Lib Radio,” Podcast, December 23, 2011.
“The Bob Salter Show,” WFAN/WXRK, New York, NY, December 24,
2011.
“Between the Lines,” WPKN, Bridgeport, CT, December 26,
2011.
“Spirit in Action,” Northern Spirit Radio, Eau Claire, WI
December 27, 2011.
“Interview with Paul Jay,” The Real News Network, December
27, 2011.
“Topical Currents,” WLRN/NPR, Miami, FL, December 28, 2011.
“LaborLines,” WWRL, Long Island, NY, December 28, 2011.
“An Evening With,” KCBX/NPR, San Luis Obispo, CA, December
29, 2011.
“Viewpoints,” MediaTracks, December 29, 2011.
“Economic Update with Richard Wolff”, WBAI, New York, NY,
December 31, 2011.
“Your Call,” KALW/NPR, San Francisco, CA, January 3, 2012.
“The Progressive Forum,” KPFT, Houston, TX, January 5, 2012.
“Open Mind,” Michigan Public Radio (NPR), January 6, 2012.
“Focus,” WMUA, Amherst, MA, January 8, 2012.
“The Fairness Doctrine,” WDIS, Boston/WWPR Tampa Bay/KSKQ,
Ashland, OR, January 9, 2012.
“Building Bridges,” WBAI, New York, NY, January 9, 2012.
“Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn,” Americans United, January
10, 2012.
“Workers Independent News,” Workers Independent News,
Madison, WI, January 10, 2012.
“Late mornings,” KVON, Napa, CA, January 11, 2012.
“Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins,” WFAE, Charlotte, NC,
January 12, 2012.
“The Bob Edwards Show,” XM Radio, January 12, 2012.
“Focus,” WILL (NPR), Urbana, IL, January 12, 2012.
“Peace and Social Justice,” KZFR, Chico, CA, January 13,
2012.
“Economic Perspectives,” KAZI, Austin, TX, January 14, 2012.
“Carson‟s Corner,” UPR, NJ, January 14, 2012.
“Midday,” Maine Public Radio, January 17, 2012.
“The Peter B. Collins Show,” Podcast, January 18, 2012.
“A New Economic Paradigm,” Alternative Radio, Cambridge, MA,
January 19, 2012.
“The Roadhouse,” WTIP, Grand Marais, MN, January 20, 2012.
“Voices of Our World,” Maryknoll, Maryknoll, NY, January 24,
2012.
“The World of Work with Shep Cohen,” WDVR, Newark, NJ,
January 27, 2012.
“Conversations Live,” WMPR, Jackson, MS, January 30, 2012.
“Perspectives,” KKSU/NPR, Kansas City, MO, January 31, 2012.
“Rag Radio,” KOOP, Austin, TX, February 3, 2012.
“This is Hell!” WNUR, Chicago, IL, February 4, 2012.
“Media Matters with Bob McChesney,” WILL, Urbana, IL,
February 26, 2012.
“Gar Alperovitz: Can Cooperative Workplaces Save America's
Economy?” Nation Conversations, March 22, 2012.
“Political Analysis,” Progressive Radio Network, March 27,
2012.
“Co-op Nation: Interview with Gar Alperovitz,” Shareable,
April 9, 2012.
“Interview with Laura Flanders,” Freespeech TV, April 18,
2012.
“Gar Alperovitz,” The Progressive Radio Show, October 29,
2012.
“Mind over Matter: Sustainability Segment,” KEXP, October
29, 2012.
“Living in the New “Pre-History”: An Interview with Gar
Alperovitz,” Solidarity Hall with Elias Crim, January
20, 2013.
“One Man‟s Search For The Next American Revolution,” The
State of Things, WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio,
March 13, 2013.
"What Then Must We Do?" Progressive Radio with Matthew
Rothschild, The Progressive, April 17, 2013.
“How do we democratize wealth in the US?” Your Call, KALW,
San Francisco, CA, April 25, 2013.
“A New Economic Order?” Topical Currents, WLRN, May 6,
2013.
“Innovative, Democratic and Sustainable Economic Models
Emerge as Viable Alternatives to America‟s Current
Failing System,” Counterpoint with Scott Harris,
Between the Lines, May 8, 2013.
“Democratizing Wealth,” Taking Stock with Pimm Fox and
Carol Massar, Bloomberg Radio, May 30, 2013.
“Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution,” Majority
Report with Sam Seder, May 30, 2013.
“Can Co-ops Remake America's Economy from the Ground Up?”
Marketplace Morning Report with David Branacaccio,
Marketplace Economy, June 18. 2013.
“Building a New Economic System,” The Leonard Lopate Show,
WNYC, New York, NY, June 20, 2013.
“Gar Alperovitz Points to Worker Ownership as Fix for
Broken Democracy,” Talk Nation Radio with David
Swanson, July 10, 2013.
“The Bottom Line: A New Economy,” Econ4, Softbox, July 11,
2013.
“Is Public Ownership the Solution?” The Real News Network,
Baltimore, MD, July 13, 2013.
“Next US Revolution,” The Extra Environmentalist, Episode
63, July 18, 2013.
“I‟m Moving to Detroit!” Huffington Post Live, Huffington
Post, Washington, DC, July 29, 2013.
“A Parade of Dwarves: Democratizing Wealth for a New
Economy,” with Ted Howard, Bioneers Radio, October 11,
2013.
"What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American
Revolution,” Recovery Zone, KBOO, Portland, OR, October
23, 2013.
“Is More Democracy The Answer To Our Economic Woes?”
Maryland Morning, WYPR, Baltimore, MD, November 20,
2013.
“10 Steps You Can Take to Democratize Your Community,”
Breaking the Set with Abby Martin, Russia Today,
Washington, DC, December 9, 2013.
“The Next American Revolution,” Media Education Foundation,
Northampton, MA, 2013.
“Gar Alperovitz on Reality Asserts Itself,” The Real News
Network, Baltimore, MD, January 23, 2014.
“David Harvey and Gar Alperovitz on Cooperation and
Capitalism,” GRITtv¸ September 9, 2014.
“Ep 11: Gar Alperovitz | The Laura Flanders Show¸” teleSUR
English, October 6, 2014.
RELATED MAJOR PUBLIC ADDRESSES AND UNIVERSITY LECTURES (Selected)
Joint Presentation with Senators Jacob Javits, Fred Harris,
Gaylord Nelson, Symposium on Community Self-
Determination, Washington, D.C., December 12, 1968.
"The Use of the Atomic Bomb," Address to the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 137th
meeting, Chicago, IL, February 28, 1970.
Chair, Panel on Planning and Public Ownership, Emergency
Conference on Economic Alternatives, U.S. House of
Representatives, Washington, D.C., November 15-16,
1974.
Presentation on New Economic Alternatives to the Governor of
California and his Cabinet, Tiberon, CA, April 18-19,
1975.
Presentation to the U.S. Senate Conference on Planning
(sponsored by Senators Javits, Humphrey and Culver),
Washington, D.C., May 22, 1975.
Address, "Economic Alternatives for a Humane Society," to
the American Psychological Association Conference,
Washington, D.C., September 7, 1976.
Address, "The Economy and the Cities," to National Urban
Alliance Conference of the U.S. Conference of Mayors,
Washington, D.C., January 17, 1977.
Address, "The Future of Planning," to Senior Management
Group, Union Carbide Corporation, New York, NY, March
22, 1977.
Keynote Speech to the Convention of the National Association
of Neighborhoods, Pittsburgh, PA, April 23, 1977.
Address, "Long-Range Planning in an Environment of
Uncertainty," to the American Management Association
Conference on Agribusiness 1977 and Beyond, Chicago,
IL, April 25, 1977.
Address, "The Future of the Economy," to the Symposium on
Constitutional Change, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, April 30, 1977.
Address, "Feeding the World: Can We, and Should We?" to the
Conference of the National Council of Churches, New
York, NY, June 7, 1977.
Joint Presentation, with Thornton Bradshaw, on Economic
Planning; Special Seminar on the Economy including John
Gardner, James Hoge, Jerry McAfee, Michael McCloskey,
Murray Weidenbaum, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, July 17-
23, 1977.
Presentation on Anti-Inflation Policy to the Council of
Economic Advisors and the Chairman of the Council on
Wage and Price Stability, The White House, Washington,
D.C., August 26, 1977.
Keynote Address, "Understanding the New Inflation," to
Consumer Federation of America Consumer National
Assembly, Washington, D.C., January 19, 1978.
Plenary Address, "Co-Linking National Economic Stimulation
and Urban Policies," to the League of Cities
Congressional-City Conference, Washington, D.C., March
5, 1978.
Address, "The Youngstown Crisis and the Possibility of
Community Economic Participation," Harvard University,
April 16, 1978.
Plenary Address, "Community Dislocation and Mental Health,"
to Conference on Economic Health and Mental Health
sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health,
Baltimore, MD, June, 1978.
Presentation, "The American Economic Future," for the
Conference on "Alternative Development," Foundation for
Development Alternatives, Nyon, Switzerland, June 28,
1978.
Presentation, with Alfred Kahn, "Inflation in the
Necessities," for the White House Consumer Seminar, The
White House, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1978.
Special Presentation for the President of the United States,
"On Inflation in the Necessities," (as spokesman for
national consumer and other group*0), The White House,
Washington, D.C., December 19, 1978.
Address, "Individual Responsibility and Economic
Alternatives," to Copeland Colloquium, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, January 12, 1979.
Presentation, "Economic Alternatives for the Future," to
Fellows of the Walter Bagehot Fellowship Program in
Economics and Business Journalism, Columbia School of
Journalism, New York, NY, April 26, 1979.
William C. Wheaton Memorial Lecture, "Community and Region
in Economic Strategy," Department of City and Regional
Planning, University of California at Berkeley, May 18,
1979.
Keynote speech (and debate with Alfred Kahn, Presidential
Adviser on Inflation), "Controlling Inflation in the
Necessity Sectors," to National Conference on
Inflation, sponsored by 79 consumer and other national
organizations.**0 Washington, D.C., June 27, 1979.
Leading Participant (with Walter Cronkite, Louis Harris, and
Harland Cleveland), "Impact on Corporate Affairs,"
Philip Morris Corporate Affairs Conference, Waldorf-
Astoria, New York, NY, January 15, 1980.
Lecturer in Residence, "New Directions: Economic Justice in
the American Economy," 1979-1980 Annual Lecture Series
of the Economics Department, Notre Dame University,
Notre Dame, IN, March 25-28, 1980.
Presentation, "Alternative Energy Strategies," to the
Conference on High Energy Inflation, the Economy,
Energy Conservation and Renewable Resources, sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., May
14, 1980.
* See below, Advisory Groups, Boards, other Positions.
*** See below, Advisory Groups, Boards, other Positions.
Presentation to "The Midyear Economic Outlook," sponsored by
International Management and Development Institute,
Washington, D.C., June 3, 1980.
Presentation, "The Next Decade," to The President's
Commission for a National Agenda for the 1980's,"
Washington, D.C., July 10, 1980.
Address, "Toward a New Political Economic Synthesis in the
U.S.," to the International Conference on Welfarism,
conducted by the Swedish Council for Planning and
Coordination of Research, Hasselby Castle, Sweden,
August 20-22, 1980.
Address, "Beyond the Inflation Stalemate: The Possibility of
a New Political-Economic Paradigm in the Decade of the
1980s," to the Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1980.
Address, "The Coming Decade," to the National Seminar on the
Outlook for the U.S. Economy, American University,
National Center for Business and Economic
Communication, Washington, D.C., September 22, 1980.
Three-way Debate (with Herbert Stein and Thomas Schelling),
"Perspectives on Coping with Massive Price Shifts," at
Conference on High Energy Costs: Assessing the Burden,
sponsored by the Brookings Institution and Resources
for the Future, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1980.
Presentation, "Decentralization and the Political-Economy,"
to the Conference on "How Capitalistic is the U.S.
Constitution?" sponsored by the American Enterprise
Institute, Alexandria, VA, November 20, 1980.
Plenary Address, "The Economic Crisis: Is Another Dunkirk
Inevitable?" to the National Consumer Assembly '81,
Consumer Federation of America, Washington, D.C.,
February 6, 1981.
Plenary Address, "Technological Innovation for Economic
Prosperity," to the National Governors Association
Conference, Washington, D.C., February 21, 1981.
Address, "The Future of Urban Economic Policy," Conference
on "Developing National Industrial Policies: The Urban
Perspective," by U.S. Conference of Mayors, Washington,
D.C., February 25, 1981.
Opening Address, "The New Inflation," to the 9th Annual
Meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, Philadelphia, PA, April 4, 1981.
Plenary Address, "Cities, and the Economic Crisis," to the
Annual Meeting, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Louisville,
KY, June 16, 1981.
Address, "The Future of the American Economy," Ilustre
Colegio Central de Titulares Mercantiles: Technica
Economica, Madrid, Spain, December 1, 1981.
Joint Chair (with Ambassador William Brock) International
Seminar on Trade, Conference on "Western Capitalism,
Trade and the Economic Dimensions of Freedom," Ditchley
Park, U.K., December 4-6, 1981.
Address, "The Coming Politics of the Economy," Fund for New
Priorities Conference, New York, New York, February 25,
1982.
Panel Presentation on "Managing the Government Deficit and
Business Cycle," to the Conference on Removing
Obstacles to Economic Growth, Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 14,
1983.
Address, "Broadening the Industrial Policy Debate, to the
Congressional Black Caucus National Issues Forum,
Washington, D.C., September 22, 1983.
Address, "Planning for a Sustained Community," to the
Conference on Catholic Social Teaching and the United
States Economy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
IN, December 12-14, 1983.
Address, "Whither the Economy?" to the General Executive
Board, International Union of Operating Engineers, Bal
Harbour, FL, February 7, 1984.
Address, "The Poverty of Industrial Policy," Duke
University, Distinguished Speaker Program, February 7,
1984.
Address, "The Centrality of Community--and of Planning to
Sustain It," Conference: Consultation on `Just
Economics,' National Council of Churches, Stony Point,
NY, May 20-23, 1984.
Address, "An Ethical Vision of Economic Community," to the
House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, Jackson, MS,
October 13, 1984.
Joint Presentation, "The Importance of the Economic
Pastoral," with Archbishop Weakland, Chair, U.S.
Catholic Bishops Economic Pastoral Letter Drafting
Committee, Sienna Center, Racine, WI, April 20, 1985.
Presentation, "On Participation, Decentralization, and
Economic Planning," to Conference/Study Group on the
Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Letter, Harvard University
Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, March 29-31, 1985.
Address, "Trinity Plus Forty: A Moral History of the Atomic
Bomb," Harvard University, Institute of Politics,
Cambridge, MA, July 16, 1985.
Address, "Reaganomics and the Long Range Outlook," to the
Society of Government Economists, Washington, D.C.,
March 12, 1986.
Plenary Address, "The Future of Social Justice in the
American Economy," to Annual Conference of the
Minnesota Social Service Association, St. Paul, MN,
March 21, 1986.
Presentation, "The Common Good--and the Emerging Longer Term
Historical Context," to Symposium on the Common Good,
Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN, April 21, 1986.
Participant--Economic Advisor to National Council of
Churches Delegation to "Round Table Conference of
Theologians and Experts on Hunger, Poverty and the Arms
Race," sponsored by the Orthodox Church, Moscow,
Russia, May 20-23, 1986.
Address, "The Political-Economy of Defense," to the
Conference on a Common Sense Defense Budget, sponsored
by 103 Members of Congress, Cannon House Office
Building, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1986.
Address, "In an Irrational Economy: Seeds of Hope," to the
National Association of Community Development Loan
Funds Conference, October 1988.
Presentation, "Values, The Economy and New Institutions," to
the Tikkun Conference, New York, NY, December 18, 1988.
Lecture, "Income Distribution and the American Dream," "The
American Dream: Rags, Riches, Reality," to the 10th
Annual Hope College Critical Issues Symposium, Holland,
MI, March 1, 1989.
Address, "The Stance of William Appleman Williams," to the
William Appleman Williams Memorial Colloquium,
Washington, D.C., June 10, 1990.
Lecture, "The Decision to Go Nuclear: An Anti-Soviet
Policy," "Teaching Points of International Concern and
Contending Ideas on Threats to Peace," graduate
seminar, The United States Institute of Peace and
Alderson-Broaddus College, Philippi, WV, July 13, 1990.
Participant, "Practice and Nature of Democracy at the End of
the 20th Century," at Transnational Institute
Conference, Amsterdam, Holland, November 26-28, 1990.
Lecture, "Religious Socialism," DePaul University, Chicago,
IL, February 2, 1991.
Lecture, "What We Now Know About the Bombing of Hiroshima,"
Saint Michael's College Peace and Justice Committee and
the College Lecture Series, Saint Michael's College,
Colchester, VT, March 21, 1991.
Presentation, "Urban Policy in the 1990s: Class vs. New
Social Movement Demands," to 9th Annual Socialist
Scholars Conference, The City University of New York,
NY, April 7, 1991.
Presentation, "Hiroshima and the End of World War II," to
Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, The George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., June 21, 1991.
Lecture, "Assessing the Possibilities for Fundamental Long-
Term Change," to the Center of Concern Summer
Institute, Trinity College, Washington, D.C., July 14-
19, 1991.
Presentation, "Economics and Values," Sojourners' 20th
Anniversary Festival, Calvin College and Seminary,
Grand Rapids, MI, August 16, 1991.
Presentation, "The Future of Command Economies and the
Question of the "Third Way," to 87th Annual Meeting,
The American Political Science Association, Washington,
D.C., August 29 - September 1, 1991.
Presentation, "The Bomb and the Early Cold War," "Rethinking
the Cold War," to Conference in Memory of William
Appleman Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
WI, October 19, 1991.
Presentation, United University Professions, Chapter
Presidents' Meeting, Glen Galls, NY, November 1, 1991.
Lecture, "Why the U.S. Dropped the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki," Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro,
KY, December 5, 1991.
Address, "The Cold War and Beyond: A Perspective on the
Central Importance of Nuclear Weapons," to the
Organization of American Historians, Chicago, IL, April
4, 1992.
Lecture, "A Theory of the Cold War," Kenan E. Sahin Lecture
Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, April 6, 1994.
Lecture, "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb," World War II
in the Pacific lecture series, Camden County College,
Blackwood, NJ, April 13, 1994.
Address, "Sustainability and `The System Problem,'"
Executive Staff of The President's Council on
Sustainable Development, Washington, D.C., May 20,
1994.
Presentation, "Controlling History: Delays in Information
Releases and Selective Declassification," Openness and
Secrecy: Symposium on Establishing Accountability in
the Nuclear Age, to National Press Club, Washington,
D.C., May 18, 1994.
Presentation, Roundtable Discussion of Why the Atomic Bombs
Were Used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C., July 26, 1994.
Lecture, "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: New Facts and
Old Myths," Institute on World Affairs, Iowa State
University, November 7, 1994.
Lecture, "New Institutions and the Possibility of
Fundamental Change," to the Fourteenth Annual E.F.
Schumacher Lectures, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
October 22, 1994.
Presentation, "The Bomb, Germany and the Origins of the Cold
War," with Kai Bird, Organization of American
Historians and National Council on Public History, 1995
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 31, 1995.
Presentation, "The Decision to Drop the Bomb: Multiple
Perspectives and New Evidence," to the Nuclear History
Institute forum, The American University, Washington,
D.C., July 16, 1995.
Presentation, "Historians and the Decision to Use the Atomic
Bomb," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, January
29, 1996.
Lecture, "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb in Historical
Perspective," The Five Colleges Program in Peace and
World Security Studies, Amherst, MA, February 15, 1996.
Lecture, "Hiroshima and the Suppression of American
Political and Ethical Dialogue," Union Theological
Seminary, New York, NY, March 19, 1996.
Lecture, "Critique of Michael Sandel's Democracy's
Discontents," to Summit on Ethics and Meaning,
Washington, D.C., April 16, 1996.
Lecture, "Modern Perspective on the Decision to Use the
Atomic Bomb," University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April
18, 1996.
Lecture, "The Political-Economic Crisis of Advanced
Industrial Systems: Dangers and Opportunities for the
New Century," Columbia University, New York, NY, April
25, 1996.
Lecture, "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb in Modern
Historical Understanding," U.S. Foreign Policy Series,
The Center for International and Comparative Studies,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 22, 1996.
Moderator, "How Do We Shape a New Economics?" Panel on
Economics, Is There a Politics beyond Liberal and
Conservative conference, Hunter College, New York, NY,
June 15, 1996.
Lecture, "Challenging Inequality: New Strategies for
Allocating the Benefits of Our Technological
Inheritance," to the Sixth International Basic Income
European Network Congress, Vienna, Austria, September
12, 1996.
Lecture, "The War and the 20th Century U.S. Political
Economy," to the Hamburg Institute, Hamburg, Germany,
September 15, 1996.
Lecture, "Modern Research Findings and the Decision to Use
the Atomic Bomb," Fifty Years of Nuclear Weapons:
Hiroshima Symposium, Hiroshima, Japan, September 17,
1996.
Lecture, "Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons and a Theory of the
Cold War," to the ISA-JAIR Joint Convention, Makuhari,
Japan, September 20, 1996.
Co-Organizer, "Strategic Dialogue," The National Center for
Economic and Security Alternatives and the Committee on
Political Economy of the Good Society, Harvard, May 16-
17, 1997.
Participant, Member of the Planning Committee: Center for
Concern, 10th Anniversary of the Catholic Bishops'
Pastoral on the Economy, Milwaukee, WI, May 27, 1997.
Lecture, "The Hiroshima Decision in Historical Perspective,"
Towson State University, Towson, MD, April 14, 1997.
Address, "Inequality, Liberty and the Potential for
Decentralized Third Way Economic Institutions in the
Coming Century," to the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August
28, 1997.
Address, "Globalization, Inequality, and Decentralized Third
Way Economic Institutions," to the Ford Foundation
Natural Resources Affinity Group Meeting, Istanbul,
Turkey, November 12-15, 1997.
Moderator, "Roundtable: Issues in General Disarmament,"
International Studies Association Annual Conference,
Washington, D.C., February 20, 1999.
Keynote Address, "Cultures of Peace and Economic Justice,"
to the Cultures of Peace Conference, Boston Research
Center for the 21st Century, Boston, MA, March 5, 1999.
Presentation, "Inequality, Community_Building,
Participation, and Political Power: Institutional
Explorations at the Frontier of Civil Society and
Economics," with Ted Howard, Civil Society in the
United States, Georgetown University Public Policy
Institute, Washington, D.C., June 3-4, 1999.
Presentation, "The Unexceptional Nature of American
Exceptionalism: Globalization, Civil Society, and
Democracy in the New Century," at the Forum on
Democracy 1999, Sponsored by the White House Millennium
Council, Mission 2000 (French governmental body), and
the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of
Democracy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,
October 28-30, 1999.
Keynote Address, "Rebuilding the Economy from the Community
Up: Cooperatives, Democratic Economic Entities, and a
Potential Transformation in the New Century," to the
Fifth Annual Cooperative Development Forum, National
Cooperative Business Association, Baltimore, MD,
November 4-6, 1999.
Presentation, “The Emerging Context for Engaged Citizen
Participation,” State of the Possible Retreat, Positive
Futures Network, at the Fetzer Insitute, Kalamazoo, MI,
November 2000.
Panelist, "A New Millennium: New Issues Facing Leaders,”
Jewish Federation, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2001.
Participant, “The Theory and Practice of Civic Globalism,” A
Program of the Democracy Collaborative, April 19-21,
2001.
Address, “The Question of Hiroshima,” to the New Directions
in Psychoanalytic Thinking Conference, “The Meanings of
Evil,” Washington, D.C., April 21, 2001.
Plenary Address, “New Directions in Democratic, Community-
Based Development in the Global Era,” to the ARNOVA
conference, Miami, FL, November 29, 2001.
Panelist, The Public Mission of the Public University,
Workshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD,
December 7, 2001.
Presentation, “Neither Capitalism Nor Socialism?,” River
Road Unitarian Church, Bethesda, MD, December 16, 2001.
Panelist, “The Context of Democratic Practice: Nationalism
and Violence,” The State of Democratic Practice, The
Democracy Collaborative Affiliates Conference, College
Park, MD, January 25-26, 2002.
Presentation, "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb," Kehila
Chadasha, Bethesda, MD, March 10, 2002.
Keynote address, "Building Better Communities in the
Workplace, in the Company, in the Country," to the 16th
Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference, Kent State
University, Kent, OH, April 12, 2002.
Panel presentation, "On Terror and Democracy," The Democracy
Collaborative, International Roundtable, Globalization,
Terror and Democracy: How 9/11 Changed the Debate in
America and Abroad, American Academy in Berlin, June 2-
4, 2002.
Keynote Address, "Movement Building and the Future of
Workplace Democracy," SHARING THE PROMISE: Economic
Democracy at Work, Eastern Conference for Workplace
Democracy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD,
July 19-21, 2002.
Presentation, "Broadening Ownership of Productive Assets:
Time for a Major Collaborative Transformative Effort,"
Fix Globalization, at the International Policy
Conference of the Capital Ownership Group, Washington,
D.C., October 9–11, 2002.
Address, "Emerging Trends and Local Democratic Political-
Economic Change," at Setting Economic Policy to Achieve
Social Goals, Southern New Hampshire University‟s 2003
National Community Economic Development Symposium,
Manchester, New Hampshire. 2003.
Panel Participant, “Poverty and Race,” 10th Anniversary
International Conference of the Center for Community
Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA, April 7, 2003.
Guest Speaker, "Making a Place for Community: New Strategies
for Community Based Economic Development in the Global
Era," at Facts, Fads, And Fantasies Of Economic
Development In The Knowledge Economy, Michigan State
University Urban Affairs Program Summer Institute
Conference, June 26, 2003.
Presentation, "Hiroshima‟s Meaning for the Future of
American Foreign Policy” at Hiroshima in the 21st
Century: Will We Repeat the Pat?” Conference at
American University, Washington, D.C., December 13,
2003.
Plenary Presentation, "Other Economies Are Possible! --
Strengthening, Connecting and Creating Economies Beyond
Capitalism," at Boston Social Forum, at the University
of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA, July 23-25,
2004.
Presentation, "Public Investment Strategies at the State
Level," at Boston Social Forum, at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA, July 23-25, 2004.
Panel Chair, “History, Continued: Alternatives to Capitalism
and State Socialism,” Global Inequalities: 100th APSA
Annual Meeting & Exhibition, American Political Science
Association, September 2, 2004.
Panel Presentation, "National and International Transitions:
A Look to the Future," Comparative and International
Education Society (CIES), at the George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2004.
Address, “Are We at the Beginning of a Systemic – Not Simply
a Political – Crisis? (And if so, What are the
Implications?)”, Speaker Series, The Public Lectures
Committee for the Department of Political Science,
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2004.
Plenary Address, “A State Economic Agenda,” Economic
Analysis and Research Network (EARN), December 3, 2004.
Address, “America Beyond Capitalism,” at the Washington Book
Forum, at American University, Washington, D.C., April
5, 2005.
Panel Presentation, “Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism in
the New Century,” at the Free Community Forum, at the
Community School of New Hope-Solebury, New Hope, PA,
April 8, 2005.
Panel Presentation, “The Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,”
at Lifting the Shadow: Toward a Nuclear-Weapons-Free
World, at the Graduate Center, City University of New
York, New York, NY, May 2, 2005.
Keynote, Aspen Institute Conference on New Asset-Based
Approaches, Aspen, Co, May 22, 2005.
Keynote, Cooperatives, New Wealth Institutions and
America's Economic Future" 49th Annual Consumer
Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) Conference,
Albuquerque, NM, June 9-11, 2005.
Keynote, “Cooperative Understandings and the Next Economy,”
Association of Cooperative Educators, Alexandria, VA,
August 3-6, 2005.
Keynote Address, “The Ongoing Lessons of Hiroshima for Our
Own Time,” to Interfaith Peace Memorial Gathering,
commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New York Buddhist Church,
Riverside Church, New York, NY, August 5, 2005.
Presentation, “How Do We Begin to Get Serious About an
American Transitional Strategy?” at Alternatives to
Capitalism Plenary, The URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat,
Bantam, CT, August 20-23, 2005.
Panel Chair and Presentation, "Is There a Way to Think
Intelligently About America Beyond Capitalism?", a
panel presentation by the Committee for the Political
Economy of the Good Society, at the American Political
Science Association Conference, September 1, 2005.
Keynote, “The Profound Challenge of the New Era: New
Political Economic Strategies for the 21st Century,”
Money, Markets and Sustainability: Bridging the Global
Divide, at 16th annual SRI in the Rockies Conference,
Snowbird, UT, September 25-28, 2005.
Panel Chair and Presentation, "The Emerging Context for New
Economic Strategies," Fair Exchange: Conference on
Growing, Governing, and Protecting Community Assets,
George Washington University Law School, Washington,
D.C., October 7, 2005.
Presentation, "America Beyond Capitalism", Greenstar
Cooperative, Ithaca, NY, October 20, 2005.
Presentation, "Co-ops and America Beyond Capitalism",
Berkshire Co-op, Great Barrington, MA, October 27,
2005.
Panelist, “Reforming „American‟ Policy Space: Engaging
Public Scholarship to Transform Practices of Policy
Making in the US”, American Studies Association,
Washington, D.C., November 3-6, 2005.
Presentation, “New Community Wealth Building Strategies”,
Enterprising Organizations: New Approaches to Social
Problem-Solving, at Aspen Institute, January 18, 2006.
Presentation, “Beyond Environmentalism: Envisioning a
Sustainable and Desirable Future”, at Gund Institute
for Ecological Economics, The University of Vermont,
April 13, 2006.
Keynote Address, “Building Democracy From the Ground Up!,”
Spring General Membership Meeting of the Weavers Way
Co-op, Philadelphia, PA, April 29, 2006.
Panel Presentation, “New Spatial Scales of Democracy and
Resistance”, Another State is Possible: Activism,
Global Justice, and Democracy, City University of New
York, New York, NY, May 4, 2006.
Keynote Address, “Ownership, Community and Democratic
Governance: The Emerging Possibility of a
Transformative Moment”, Responsible Governance: The
Power of Accountable Boards, International Policy
Governance Association, San Antonio, TX, June 1-3,
2006.
Keynote Speaker, “How to create a real ownership society”,
Vermont Employee Ownership Conference, Burlington, VT,
June 6, 2006.
Panel Presentation, “Securing and Expanding the Common
Wealth: The Next Best Thing”, at Take Back America ‟06,
Campaign for America‟s Future, Washington D.C., June
12-14, 2006.
Plenary, “Another World is Possible”, 27th Annual Summer
Institute, Economic Alternatives, Center for Popular
Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
Amherst, MA, July 23-29, 2006.
Keynote Address, "Building Community, Building Assets: Race,
Place & Equity," to Annual Conference of the
Neighborhood Funders Group, Durham, NC, September 11-
13, 2006.
Keynote Address, Local Democracy Convention: The Community
Power Road to Democracy, Madison, WI, Sep. 28-Oct. 1,
2006.
Presentation, “Building Wealth-The New Asset Based Approach
to Solving Social and Economic Problems”, to Choosing
an Effective and Just Economic Future: A Leadership
Roundtable, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA,
October 11, 2006.
Presentation, "A Strategic Understanding of Wealth,
Community and Civic Engagement" hosted by the Boggs
Center: Fall Conversation Series, Detroit, MI, November
5, 2006.
Presentation, "Beyond Capitalism in the Real World of
American Cities", at “Detroit: From Urban Crisis to
Revitalization” hosted by the University of Michigan's
College of Literature, Science and the Arts Theme Year
Lecture Series: “The Theory and Practice of
Citizenship: From the Local to the Global” Detroit, MI,
November 6, 2006.
Presentation, "Dr. King and the Central Political-Economic
Issue", "Realizing the Dream Listening and Learning
Summit and Symposium" (MLK III), L'Enfant Plaza Hotel,
Washington, D.C., November 16, 2006.
Opening Address, “Building Community Wealth: New Asset-Based
Approaches to Solving Social and Economic Problems in
Cleveland and Northeast Ohio”, Cleveland, OH, December
7-8, 2006.
Public Lecture, "America Beyond Capitalism," McConnell
Center Lecture Series , University of Louisville,
Louisville, KY, January 18, 2007. (The Spring 2007
lecture series "was designed to help better understand
the diversity within the American political and
intellectual world, specifically moving beyond the
"Liberal" and "Conservative" tags.")
Public Service, Presentation to Green Study Group, (Invited
to present Pluralist Commonwealth model to a group of
environmentalist engaging issues of ownership),
Kensington, MD, March 10, 2007.
Lecture, “Enduring Peace Not Repeated War: An Agenda for the
21st Century,” to Center for Civic Engagement,
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, March 16, 2007.
Opening Address, “Commons & Community Wealth Building,” with
Ted Howard, OMB Watch and Institute for Policy Studies,
Washington, D.C., March 28, 2007.
Keynote Address, “Equality, Liberty and Democracy: A
Historian Looks Ahead to the 21st Century", 2007 Phi
Alpha Theta Regional Conference, James Madison
University, Harrisonburg, VA, March 31, 2007.
Presentation, "America Beyond Capitalism: A Dialogue On
Recent Work,” Gar Alperovitz with film-makers Eugene
Jarecki, director of "Why We Fight" (winner of 2005
Sundance Grand Jury Prize for best documentary) and
Andrew Jarecki, director of “Capturing the Friedmans”
(Oscar nominee and winner of 2004 Sundance Grand Jury
Prize for best documentary), The Watson Center, Brown
University, Providence, RI, April 11, 2007.
Keynote, “Towards A Comprehensive Community Wealth-Building
Strategy,” to the Lackawanna County Economic
Development Summit, Hilton Hotel and Conference Center,
Scranton, PA, April 17, 2007.
Presentation, "Towards a Post-Capitalist World," A joint
presentation with David Schweickart (author of After
Capitalism), Moderated by Joe Schwartz (Democratic
Socialists of America National Steering Committee
Chair), at MIT Young Democratic Socialists Forum,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
April 19, 2007.
Public Service: Guest Lecture, Maret School (Secondary
School) AP American History Class (Invited by teacher,
Al Kilborne), Washington, D.C., May 18, 2007.
Plenary Speaker, “America Beyond Capitalism,” at the Second
International Conference of the International
Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in
Economics (ICAPE), Economic Pluralism for the 21st
Century, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2, 2007.
Panelist, “Strategies to Subordinate Corporations: A
Discussion About What Works,” with Richard Grossman and
Kathryn Mulvey, at Taming the Corporation: A Conference
on Corporate Accountability (Presented by Ralph Nader
and
The Center for Study of Responsive Law), The Carnegie
Institution, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2007.
Panel Moderator, “Building Community Wealth: Progressive
Ownership Strategies,” with Vickie Johnson, John Logue,
and Harold Simon, at Take Back America Conference
(Campaign for America‟s Future), Washington Hilton,
Washington, D.C., June 19, 2007.
Keynote Speaker, “New Progressive Economic Strategies,” at
the What‟s the Economy For? (Conference), Washington,
D.C. Convention Center, October 5, 2007.
Keynote Speaker, “America Beyond Capitalism,” Strengthening
and Building Communities: The Social Economy in a
Changing World (1st International CIRIEC Research
Conference on the Social Economy), Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada, October 23, 2007.
Lecture, “Paths to a Democratic and Egalitarian Economy in
the New Era,” Vision of Hope Speaker Series, Peace and
Justice Programs, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH,
April 7, 2008.
Address, “America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth,
Our Liberty, and Our Democracy” NETWORK (Washington
Religious Leaders Organization), Washington, D.C.,
April 17, 2008.
Presentation, “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,”
Presentation at Symposium on the occasion of the
premier of John Adams‟s Doctor Atomic at
Metropolitan Opera; The Graduate Center of the
City University of New York, New York, NY, October
17, 2008.
Keynote Address, “A New Direction in Community Building for
the 21st Century,” to Realizing the Dream Conference
(Hosted by Martin Luther King III), Grand Hyatt Hotel,
Washington, D.C., October 21, 2008.
Keynote Address, “Building a New Economy from the Bottom
Up,” to La Montanita Conference, Albuquerque, NM,
October 25, 2008.
Presentation, “Unjust Deserts,” at Politics and Prose
Bookstore, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2008.
Panel Presentation, “New Strategies for Community Wealth-
Building,” at Expanding Asset Building: Opportunities
Through Shared Ownership Conference, The Annie E. Casey
Foundation, Baltimore, MD, December 2, 2008.
Presentation, “Unjust Deserts,” at DEMOS, New York, NY,
December 9, 2008.
Presentation, “Unjust Deserts,” at Center for American
Progress, Washington, D.C., December 12, 2008.
Presentation, “Unjust Deserts,” at the Bauman Foundation,
The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., December 17, 2008.
Lecture, “America Beyond Capitalism: New Directions for
Institutional Change,” at Cooperative Charitable Trust
Forum, Cambridge, MA, January 9, 2009.
Lecture, “New Economic Institutions and America‟s Future,”
to Center for Economic Development, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, April 3, 2009.
Extended Interview, MIT Presencing Institute, April 7, 2009
“Long Term Norm: Economic Instability and
Inequality,”http://www.tc.presencing.com/sites/default/
files/Interview_Alperovitz_0.pdf
Panel Presentation, “New Economic Institutions in America‟s
Future,” at the Forum on Faith, Economy and Ecology:
Moving Beyond Growth to a Sustainable Earth Community,
Maryknoll Center for Education, Descign and
Communication, Washington, D.C., May 3, 2009.
Strategic Consultation, “Beyond Growth & Consumption:
Emerging Visions For a Prosperous, Sustaining and more
Equitable Economic Future,” Pocantico Conference
Center, May 19-20, 2009, Pocantico, N.Y.
Lecture, “Innovative Ownership Strategies,” to The Singapore
Group (Academic, Political and Foundation Leaders Urban
Policy Group), Baltimore, MD, May 20, 2009.
Strategic Consultation, “Transforming Capitalism to a
Sustainable, Just, and Generative Ecosystem Economy,”
MIT “Co-Lab,” Cambridge, MA, June 8-9, 2009.
Strategic Consultation, “Game Plan for the Transition to a
Sustainable US Economy,” the Gund Institute for
Ecological Economics, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT, July 7-9, 2009.
Lecture, “America Beyond Capitalism,” to Chautauqua
Institution Interfaith Lecture Series, Chautauqua, NY,
July 22, 2009.
Keynote Address, “America Beyond Capitalism,” to the Second
Annual Armenians and Progressive Politics Conference
Glendale Community College, Los Angeles, CA, September
19, 2009,
Lecture, "Beyond Capitalism and the Recovery Process," to
the Fischer Policy & Cultural Institute, Nichols
College, Dudley, MA, October 22, 2009.
Lecture, “America Beyond Capitalism,” Six Part Seminar
Series, Carnegie Journalism Fellows, Fall 2009,
University of Maryland Journalism School, College Park,
MD, 2009.
Lecture, “Democratizing the System,” Mel King Community
Fellows Program, M.I.T. Co-Lab, M.I.T., Cambridge,
Mass., January 4, 2010.
Panel Presentation, “Does the Unusual Nature of the Crisis
Also Contain the Possibility of New and Potentially
Prefigurative Democratic Forms?,” Left Forum, Pace
University, New York, New York, March 21, 2010.
Panel Presentation, “America Beyond Capitalism,” Left Forum,
Pace University, New York, New York, March 21, 2010.
Lecture, “The University as Innovation Driver and Knowledge
Center,” Fulbright New Century Scholars Meeting,
Georgetown University, April 23, 2010.
Lecture, “The Possibility of Profound Change in America,”
The Community Land Trust, Great Barrington,
Massachusetts, March 6, 2010.
Participant Discussant, “Social Justice and Innovation
Economics Roundtable,” Information Technology
Innovation Foundation, Chicago, May 18, 2010
Participant Discussant, Roundtable Dialogue on Transforming
Capitalism, Presencing Institute, M.I.T., Cambridge,
Mass. May 21,2010.
Lecture, “New Economic Directions, Indicators, and Growth
Planning,” New Economic Institute Launch Conference,
Pocantico, New York, June 5, 2010
Participant-Discussant,“Establishing an Appropriate Policy
Environment for Fourth Sector (For-Benefit)
Organizations,Aspen Institute, June 8, 2010
Panel Presentation, “Rebuilding America from the Bottom Up,”
America‟s Future Now Conference, Campaign for America‟s
Future, June 9, 2010, Washington Hilton, Washington,
D.C.
Presentation, “Over the Horizon: Long Term Change,”
Progressive Ideas Network Annual Meeting, June 9, 2010
Lecture, ”New Economic Models and Directions,”
Tikkun/Network of Spiritual Progressives,Church of the
Reformation, Washington, D.C., June 12, 2010
Presentation, “What the Churches can do for an Economic and
Ecological Sane Future,” Church of the Savior Working
Group, Washington, D.C. July 5, 2010
Keynote, Sustainable Reston Awards Meeting, Reston,
Virginia, August 18, 2010.
Participant Discussant, Sustainable Communities Research
Roundtable, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech,
held at Sun Tech Headquarters, Washington, D.C.,
September 1, 2010.
Discussant, Panel “Social Justice in the Aftermath:
Rethinking States, Corporations and Financial
Institutions, American Political Science Association
Conference, September 2, 2010
Discussant Participant, “New Strategic Directions,” Center
for the New American Dream, Washington, D.C., September
10, 2010.
Lecture, “New Directions in Institutional Change,”
Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 8,
2010.
Respondent Commentator, Lecture by Dr. Michael
Katz,“From Underclass to Entrepreneur: Reclaiming Poor
People in America's Cities,” Urban Studies and Planning
Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD,
October 13, 2010.
Feature Lecture, “Challenging Our Generation, and Yours,”
50th Anniversary Celebration of the Letters and Science
Honors Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin, November 5, 2010.
Lecture, “The Paradoxical Possibility of a Democratic
Economy,” The Board of Directors, The Nathan Cummings
Foundation, November 14, 2010, New York City.
Participant Discussant, Fellows Project Review, M.I.T. Co-
Lab Advisory Board, M.I.T, Cambridge, Mass., December
16, 2010.
Plenary Keynote Address, “The Emerging Paradoxical
Possibility of a Democratic Economy,” to the
Association of Social Economics, Denver, Colorado,
January 6, 2011.
Presentation, “Catalyzing Future Evergreens,” at the Capital
Institute, Greenwich, CT, May, 2011.
Keynote Address, “Democratizing the Local: Serving all the
People” at the Democracy Convention, Madison, WI,
August 26, 2011.
Presentation, at ReImagining Work, Detroit, MI, October 29,
2011.
Lecture, “Emerging pathways to an America beyond
capitalism,” at #OccupyWallStreet, New York, NY,
November 4, 2011.
Lecture, “If you don‟t like capitalism, and you don‟t like
socialism, what do you want?” at Thirty-First Annual E.
F. Schumacher Lectures, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY,
November 5, 2011.
Panelist, “Tired of Capitalism? How about Economic
Democracy?” at ICAPE panel with David Schweickart,
Amherst, MA, November 12, 2011.
Panelist, “Worker Cooperatives, Employee Ownership,” at
ICAPE panel, Amherst, MA, November 13, 2011.
Lecture, “America Beyond Capitalism,” at Encuentro 5,
Boston, MA, December 2, 2011.
Lecture, “America Beyond Capitalism,” at Bluestockings, New
York, NY, December 4, 2011.
Panelist, “America Beyond Capitalism,” with Ralph Nader and
Ted Howard, at Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C.,
December 4, 2011.
Presentation, “Cleveland Model of Worker-Owner Coops,” 8th
Annual Orlando Latin American Film & Heritage Festival,
February 16, 2012.
Presentation, “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?”
Documentary by Directors Frances Causey and Doanld
Goldmacher, Connecting the Dots Production, Berkeley,
CA, March 2, 2011.
Panelist, “Austerity v. Prosperity: Framing the Left‟s
Immediate Demands,” Left Forum, New York, NY, March 17,
2012.
Panelist, “From Evolution to Revolution: The Path to
Systemic Change in American Society,” Left Forum, New
York, NY, March 17, 2012.
Panelist, “The Next System: Exploring Economic Alternatives
to Capitalism,” Left Forum, New York, NY, March 18,
2012.
Presentation, “Laying the Foundations for Irreversible
Transformation,” for the Transition to a New Economy
Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, March 30, 2012.
Panelist, “Creating New Economic Models and Launching
Initiatives,” for the “Control the Corporation”
Conference, Ralph Nader and Center for Study of
Responsive Law, April 2, 2012.
Keynote Address, “Public Banking and the Big Picture,” for
the Public Banking in America Conference, Public
Banking Institute, Philadelphia, PA, April 27, 2012.
Presentation, “Reimagining a Just Economy,” Truthout,
Washington, DC, May 6, 2012.
Presentation, “The Emerging New Economy,” Baltimore Higher
Education Alliance for Real Democracy and Red Emma‟s
Bookstore Coffeehouse, Baltimore, MD, May 7, 2012.
Closing Plenary Address, Strategies for a New Economy
Conference, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June
9, 2012.
Panelist, “Progressive Business for Social Change: Building
a 21st Century Economy,” 2012 Take Back the American
Dream, Washington, DC, June 20, 2012.
Lecture, “The Emerging Context and its Possibilities,”
Summer Institute in New Economics, Boston College,
Boston, MA, June 25, 2012.
Presentation, 2012 Annual Meeting, Real Utopias, Denver, CO,
August 17-20, 2012.
Speaker, “Cooperatives and the New Economy,” Cooperation
Texas, 5604 Manor, Austin, TX, September 13, 2012.
Public Lecture, “Cooperatives and the New Economy,”
University of Texas, Austin, TX, September 14, 2012.
Keynote Address, “How Do We Build the New, Democratic
Economy We Need?” SOCAP12, Social Capital Markets, San
Francisco, CA, October 2, 2012.
Keynote Address, “The Challenge and Special Responsibility
of the Cooperative Movement in an Era of Economic
Crisis,” Annual Meeting & Co-op Conference, National
Cooperative Business Association, Seattle, WA, October
2, 2012.
Presentation, “America Beyond Capitalism,” Town Hall, Civic
Life Series, Seattle, WA, October 3, 2012.
Speaker, Economic Democracy Conference, Madison, WI, October
12, 2012.
Presentation, “The Green Economy and Democratization of
Community Wealth,” Pre-Conference Intensive: Catalyzing
a Resilient Communities Network, Bioneers Conference,
San Rafael, CA, October 18, 2012.
Presentation, “The Next System,” with Ted Howard,
Democratizing Wealth and Building a Sustainable System
from the Ground Up, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael,
CA, October 20, 2012.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” Partnership for
Southern Equity and Georgia Stand Up, Martin Luther
King, Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, GA, April 2,
2013.
Lecture, “What then must we do?” New Economics Institute,
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, April 4,
2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” Malaprop‟s, Asheville, NC,
April 4, 2013.
Lecture, “A Bold Approach to the Jobs Emergency,”
Rediscovering Government initiative, Roosevelt
Institute, Knoxville, TN, April 5, 2013.
Lecture, “The Next Economic Transformation," Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, April 9, 2013.
Lecture, “Is There an America Beyond Capitalism?” University
of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 16, 2013.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” Rainbow Bookstore Co-
op, Madison, WI, April 17, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” University of Illinois at
Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 19, 2013.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” 2013 National People‟s
Action Annual Conference, Washington, DC, April 21,
2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” St. John‟s Presbyterian
Church, Berkeley, CA, April 25, 2013.
Presentation, “Wealth and Democracy: How to Change the
System,” 2013 Social Venture Network Spring Conference,
Social Venture Network, San Diego, CA, April 26, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” Elliott Bay Bookstore,
Seattle, WA, April 27, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” Powell‟s Books, Portland,
OR, April 28, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” Portland State University,
Portland, OR, April 29, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” Politics and Prose,
Washington, DC, May 5, 2013.
Interview, “What Then Must We Do?” GritTV with Laura
Flanders, New York, NY, May 5, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” University of Maryland
School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD, May 7, 2013.
Presentation, “When Martin Luther King Came to Cambridge,”
Christ Church, Cambridge, MA, May 20, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do?” UCSC Common Ground Center,
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA,
May 20, 2013.
Lecture, “What Then Must We Do? and The Next American
Revolution” Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC, May 21,
2013.
Presentation, “Democratizing Wealth,” New America
Foundation, Washington, DC, May 22, 2013.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” Commonwealth Club, San
Francisco, CA, May 31, 2013.
Presentation, “Funding the New Economy,” Public Banking
Initiative Conference, Dominican University, San
Rafael, CA, June 2-3, 2013.
Presentation, “Workplace Democracy and Democratic
Ownership,” Left Forum 2013, Pace University, New York,
NY, June 7-9, 2013.
Presentation, 11th Annual BALLE Conference, BALLE, Buffalo,
NY, June 12-14, 2013.
Presentation, “The Road to Regenerative Capitalism,” Capital
Institute Symposium, NYU, New York, NY, June 20-21,
2013.
Lecture, “Is There an America Beyond Capitalism?” Monadnock
Summer Lyceum, New Hampshire Public Radio,
Peterborough, NH, July 7, 2013.
Presentation, “Regenerating the Economy through
Cooperation,” Association of Cooperative Educators, ACE
Institute, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 3-5, 2013.
Keynote Address, 2013 Democracy Convention, Madison College,
Madison, WI, August 7, 2013.
Keynote Address, “Capitalism in Question,” Academy of
Management, Buena Vista, FL, August 9, 2013.
Presentation, Second Annual Summer Institute in New
Economics, Wingspread Retreat Center, Wind Point, WI,
August 12-18, 2013.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” Weaver Street Market,
Carrboro, NC, September 9, 2013.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” Baltimore Book
Festival, Baltimore, MD, September 29, 2013.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA, October 10, 2013.
Presentation, “The Next America: The Emerging New Direction
as the Old Order Decays,” Schumacher Center for a New
Economics, Great Barrington, MA, October 11-12, 2013.
Presentation, “What Then Must We Do?” Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, November 21, 2013.
ADDITIONAL ADDRESSES, LECTURES, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, ETC.
(Selected)
Other University Lectures:
American University
Bucknell College
Catholic University
College of St. Thomas
Columbia University
Dartmouth College
Kenyon College
Marietta College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northern Illinois University
Princeton University
Rutgers University
Seattle University
San Francisco Theological Seminary
St. Johns University
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Florida
University of Illinois
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School)
University of Oregon
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin at Parkside
Vassar College
Other Public Presentations:
Address, "The History of Atomic Diplomacy," to the Union of
Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA, March 4, 1969.
Presentation, "Deepening Problems of the American Economy,"
Symposium sponsored by the Institute for Policy
Studies, Washington, D.C., February 24-25, 1971.
Presentation, "Energy Conservation and Economic
Participation," to the Citizen's Energy Conference,
Washington, D.C., February 15-18, 1974.
Chair, Conference on Public Ownership, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, June 6-7, 1974.
Presentation, "Participation, Decentralization, and
Planning," to the Conference on Javits-Humphrey
Legislation, H.R. 50, sponsored by the Initiative
Committee for National Economic Planning, Washington,
D.C., June 11, 1975.
Address, "The Citizen's Role in the Economy," to the
National Convention of the Conference on Alternative
State and Local Public Policies, Madison, WI, June 13-
15, 1975.
Address, "Is Planning Possible?" to the Joint House-Senate
Conference on "Outsmarting Crisis: Futures Thinking in
Congress," September 16, 1975.
Address, "Symposium on "Psychotherapy or Psychocide: Social
Control Through `Treatment'," sponsored by the Delaware
Valley Mental Health Foundation, Levittown, PA,
September 20-21, 1975.
Chair, debate (Herman Kahn vs. Dennis Meadows) Limits to
Growth Conference, Houston, TX, October 19-23, 1975.
Presentation, "Planning and the American Economic Future,"
Seminar for Senior Congressional Staff Members,
sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the
Congressional Research Service of the Library of
Congress, February 19, 1976.
Presentation, "An Economic Program for the Coming Decade,"
to the Democratic Forum, National Press Club,
Washington, D.C., March 3, 1976.
Keynote, "The Future of Jobs," to the Conference on Full
Employment and the Over Forty Worker, sponsored by the
Continuing Education Division of New York Community
College, April 1, 1976.
Briefing on the Economy for Washington Newspaper Bureau
Chiefs, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1976.
Chair, Panel on Planning, the Second Convocation for
Cooperative Planning: "New Directions for the Third
Century," sponsored by the Coalition for International
Cooperation and Peace, Washington, D.C., May 8-9, 1976.
Presentation, "Energy Conservation and Community Economic
Planning," to the Environmental Agenda Conference,
sponsored by Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Washington,
D.C., February 2, 1977.
Address, "Equity, Economics, and Politics," to the National
Board, Americans for Democratic Action, Washington,
D.C., February 4, 1977.
Chair, Staff Seminar, "Toward a National Food Policy,"
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D.C., February 28, 1977.
Address, "Food Prices, Economic Policy, and the Poor," to
the Presbyterian Members Inter-Religious Impact Network
on Food Policy, Washington, D.C., March 6-9, 1977.
Address, "Personal Choice and the Economics of the Future,"
to the Life Cycle Planning Conference, Washington,
D.C., April 20, 1977.
Address, "The Future of the Economy," to the Friends
Committee on National Legislation, Washington, D.C.,
April 21, 1977.
Address, "Conservation and Community," to the Conference on
Right Livelihood, Wheelwright Center, San Francisco,
CA, May 30, 1977.
Keynote Address, "Cooperative Economics, Community
Participation, and Planning," to the National Co-op
Institute sponsored by the Consumer Cooperative
Alliance, Montclair, NJ, June 23, 1977.
Presentation, “Food Policy,” to the National Council of
Churches Working Group on Domestic Hunger and Poverty
Planning, St. Louis, MO, July 7, 1977.
Presentation, "Energy, the Economy and Development," to the
Special Session of Council on Foundations Conference,
Washington, D.C., May 5, 1978.
Plenary Address, "Democracy and the Economy," to the
National Convention, Conference on Alternative State
and Local Policies, St. Paul, MN, July 15, 1978.
Special Briefing (on Sectoral Anti-Inflation Strategies), to
the U.S. Secretary of Labor and the President's
Consumer Advisor, Washington, D.C., August 16, 1978.
Address, "Inflation and the Poor," to the National
Conference of Catholic Charities, New Orleans, LA,
September 18, 1978.
Address, "Economic Conversion," to the Conference on
Military Conversion, sponsored by Members of Congress
for World Peace Through Law, Washington, D.C.,
September 21, 1978.
Keynote Speech, "Save Youngstowns, Save America," to the
National Religious Convocation on Youngstown,
Youngstown, OH, September 29, 1978.
Address, "Inflation, Labor and the Basic Necessities," to
the National Convention of International Chemical
Workers Union, Las Vegas, NV, October 4, 1978.
Address, "Inflation and the Poor," to the Mexican American
Women's Association, Washington, D.C., November 7,
1978.
Presentation, "Inflation and Environmental Regulation,"
Briefing sponsored by Environmentalists for Full
Employment, Washington, D.C., December 13, 1978.
Presentation, "Inflation and the Individual," at Conference
on "Beyond Proposition 13--Alternatives for Survival in
the City," sponsored by Ohio Project on National
Priorities, Cleveland, OH, January 10, 1979.
Panelist, Conference on "The New Politics: Interest Group
Influence of Business and Public Policy," sponsored by
Foundation for Public Affairs, Washington, D.C., April
17, 1979.
Address, "New Economic Directions," to the Annual Conference
of the Council of Foundations, Seattle, WA, May 17,
1979.
Plenary Address, "Progressive Politics and Community-Based
Economic Planning," to the National Convention,
Conference on Alternative State and Local Public
Policies, Philadelphia, PA, August 3, 1979.
Keynote Address, "Toward a Just Economy for the 80's," to
the Annual Conference of Catholic Committee on Urban
Ministry, Notre Dame, IN, October 22, 1979.
Participant, Special Working Group on the Bishop's Pastoral
Letter, Center for Theology and Public Policy, Wesley
Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C., April 10, 1980.
Address, "The Energy Crisis--Is There a Solution?" to the
29th Congressional District Community Conference, New
York, NY, April 12, 1980.
Presentation, "Economic Alternatives and the Future," to the
Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business
Journalism, Columbia School of Journalism, New York,
NY, April 29, 1980.
Address, "Combating Inflation," to the Conference on Energy
for a Working America, sponsored by the Industrial
Union Department, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., May 5,
1980.
Plenary Address, "The Personal Challenge of the Economic
Crisis," to the 107th Annual Forum of the National
Conference on Social Welfare, Cleveland, OH, May 20,
1980.
Address, "Full Production Planning: Finding Resources for
Cities in a Changing World," to the 1980 Minnesota
League of Cities Conference, Duluth, MN, June 10, 1980.
Address, "The Cities' Stake in High Production Planning," to
the National Conference of the National League of
Cities, Minneapolis, MN, June 11, 1980.
Address, "New Strategies to Control Inflation," to the White
House Fellows, Washington, D.C., July 29, 1980.
Address, "Full Production Strategies," to the Society of
Government Economists, Washington, D.C., November 12,
1980.
Chair, Conference on Advanced Rail Passenger Systems,
sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.,
Washington, D.C., November 18, 1980.
Presentation, "Solutions to the Inflation Problem," to the
Conference on Euro-Socialism, Washington, D.C.,
December 5, 1980.
Presentation, "Inflation and an Economic Program for the
Decade," to the Progressive Staff Caucus, U.S. House of
Representatives, Washington, D.C., January 13, 1981.
Address, "New Economic Strategies for the 1980s," to the
Democratic Leadership Conference, on "Domestic Policy,
the State of the Economy," Washington, D.C., January
31, 1981.
Address, "An Economic Policy for the Decade," to the Ninth
Annual Impact Briefing, National Religious Leaders
(WISC), Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C.,
March 16, 1981.
Address, "A Just Economy," to the Board of Trustees of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Washington,
D.C., June 15, 1981.
Address, "Inflation: Will the Reagan Strategy Work?" to the
Public Interest Economics Foundation Lecture Series,
Washington, D.C., June 15, 1981.
Presentation, "Equity in Economics," to the National
Campaign for Human Development, Washington, D.C.,
November 7, 1981.
Address, "An Alternative Economic Vision," to the Urban
Network, Methodist Board of Global Ministries,
Washington, D.C., November 25, 1981.
Presentation, "Activism and Economics," to the Leadership
Conference of the National Student Association,
Washington, D.C., September 23, 1982.
Address, "Economics, Values, and Food," Xavier University,
Cincinnati, OH, November 16, 1982.
Presentation, "On the Centrality of Community Economic
Stability," to the Human Development Policy Committee
of the Annual Congressional-City Conference of the
National League of Cities, Washington, D.C., March 6,
1983.
Presentation, "Social Justice and the New Economy," to the
Ad Hoc Committee on Catholic Social Teaching and the
U.S. Economy, (Bishops' Pastoral Letter), United States
Catholic Conference, Washington, D.C., May 11, 1983.
Plenary Address, "Broadening the Industrial Policy Debate,”
to the National Conference of the National Legal Aid
and Defenders Association, Philadelphia, PA, September
21, 1983.
Participant, Seminar, "Governance in a World Economy," Aspen
Institute, Wye Plantation, MD, June 8-10, 1984.
Presentation, "Social Justice and Economic Activism,"
Conference on Empowerment of Personhood: Ministry to
the Unemployed, National Federation of Priests'
Councils, Toledo, OH, October 1-4, 1984.
Presentation, "Economics, Values and Community
Participation," to the Catholic Social Action Directors
of New England, Bridgeport, CT, November 20, 1984.
Presentation, "The Meaning of the Economic Pastoral," to the
Convocation called by the U.S. Catholic Conference,
Washington, D.C., December 13, 1984.
Address, "On the Implications of the Pastoral Letter," to
the Conference on the First Draft of the Bishop's
Letter on the Economy, Santa Clara University, January
25-27, 1985.
Address, "Economic Justice in the 1980s," to the Convocation
of Priests and Bishops, Maryland Episcopal Church,
Koolfont, MD, April 13, 1985.
Briefing, "The Moral Content of Economics," to the Urban
Convocation on Social Justice, Episcopal Church of
Connecticut, Hartford, CT, May 11, 1985.
Presentation, "Thinking Strategically About Industrial
Rebuilding," prepared for the Democratic Policy
Commission, Issue Committee on the Industrial and
Entrepreneurial Economy, Los Angeles, CA, November 15-
16, 1985.
Participant, Senior Scholars Seminar on Current Issues in
German-American Relations (with Kurt Biedenkopf),
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies,
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., March 25,
1986.
Participant, Workshop, "American Authorities and German
Institutions," American Institute for Contemporary
German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington,
D.C., April 27, 1986.
Address, "Social Justice and Economic Participation," to the
Commission on Social Action of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, Washington, D.C., September 12,
1986.
Presentation, "The Future of Regional Political-Economic
Change," Luncheon Speaker, Institute for Policy
Studies, Washington, D.C., September 12, 1986.
Participant, Senior Research Seminar on the Future of the
Warsaw Pact/N.A.T.O. Confrontation (with Gerhard
Basler), American Institute for Contemporary German
Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.,
December 9, 1986.
Participant, Senior Scholars Seminar on the Future of the
N.A.T.O. Alliance (with Stanley Sloan), American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns
Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., December 19,
1986.
Keynote Address, "The Future of Community-Based Economic
Development," to the Housing and Economic Development
Conference: State, Local, and Grass-roots Initiatives,
Washington, D.C., December 12, 1986.
Presentation, "The System Problem and National Politics," to
the Women's National Democratic Club, Washington, D.C.,
May 5, 1992.
Presentation, "Hiroshima: A Fifty-Year Retrospective," to
the American Historical Association, Annual Meeting,
Chicago, IL, January 6, 1995.
Presentation, "The Onset and Persistence of Secular
Stagnation in the U.S. Economy," to the Association for
Evolutionary Economics 1995 Meetings, Washington, D.C.,
January 8, 1995.
Presentation, "Modern Evidence on the Decision To Use the
Atomic Bomb," Historians' Committee for Open Debate on
Hiroshima educational symposium, National Press Club,
Washington, D.C., June 26, 1995.
Address, "Culture and Values: The Decision To Use the Atomic
Bomb," to the Enola Gay Action Coalition and Pax
Christi Metro DC, Washington, D.C., June 27, 1995.
Presentation, "Political Decision Making and Makers," "Was
Truman Right in Dropping The Bomb and What Were the
Consequences?" to the United States Navy Memorial
Foundation seminar, U.S. Navy Memorial Heritage Center,
Washington, D.C., July 25, 1995.
Presentation, "Nagasaki, Hiroshima and the Decision to Use
the Atomic Bomb," to the International Center of
Photography and the Historians' Committee for Open
Debate on Hiroshima symposium, New York, NY, September
18, 1995.
Lecture, "Critique of Michael Sandel's Democracy's
Discontents," to the Summit on Ethics and Meaning,
Washington, D.C., April 16, 1996.
Lecture, "Challenging Inequality: New Strategies for
Allocating the Benefits of Our Technological
Inheritance," to the Sixth International Basic Income
European Network Congress, Vienna, Austria, September
12, 1996.
Lecture, "The War and the 20th Century U.S. Political
Economy," to the Hamburg Institute, Hamburg, Germany,
September 15, 1996.
Lecture, "Modern Research Findings and the Decision to Use
the Atomic Bomb," Fifty Years of Nuclear Weapons:
Hiroshima Symposium, Hiroshima, Japan, September 17,
1996.
Lecture, "Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons and a Theory of the
Cold War," to the ISA-JAIR Joint Convention, Makuhari,
Japan, September 20, 1996.
Co-Organizer, "Strategic Dialogue," The National Center for
Economic and Security Alternatives and the Committee on
Political Economy of the Good Society, Harvard, May 16-
17, 1997.
Participant, Member of the Planning Committee: Center for
Concern, 10th Anniversary of the Catholic Bishops'
Pastoral on the Economy, Milwaukee, WI, May 27, 1997.
Address, "Inequality, Liberty and the Potential for
Decentralized Third Way Economic Institutions in the
Coming Century," to the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August
28, 1997.
Presentation, "Community in America," to the National Jewish
Center for Learning and Leadership's Renaissance
Initiative: A Modeling Consultation, New York, NY,
September 11, 1997.
Address, "Inequality, Liberty and the Potential for
Decentralized Third Way Economic Institutions in the
Coming Century," to the Public Intellectuals Meeting,
University of Pennsylvania School of Law, September 15,
1997.
Presentation, "Globalization, Democracy, Sustainability and
the `Community' Problematic," to the Ford Foundation
Working Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, November 12-16,
1997.
Participant, Panel Discussion: "Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was
Dropped," DC Jewish Community Center, Washington, D.C.,
July 22, 1998.
Participant, Panel Discussion: "Global Action to Prevent
War," Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.,
July 27, 1998.
Moderator, "Roundtable: Issues in General Disarmament,"
International Studies Association Annual Conference,
Washington, D.C., February 20, 1999.
Keynote Address, "Cultures of Peace and Economic Justice,"
to the Cultures of Peace Conference, Boston Research
Center for the 21st Century, Boston, MA, March 5, 1999.
Panelist, “The Conditions of Peace,” International Studies
Association, Annual Conference, Portland, OR, Feb. 25-
March 1, 2003.
Panel chair, “Arms Control and Disarmament: Lessons Learned
and Future Prospects,” International Studies
Association, Annual Conference, Portland, OR, Feb. 25-
March 1, 2003.
Keynote Address, “The Engaged University and Democratic
Reconstruction,” to the Social Work Community Outreach
Service, University of Maryland School of Social Work,
Baltimore, MD, April 20, 2004.
Lecture, “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,” to the
Georgetown Presbyterian Church, 3115 P Street NW,
Washington, D.C., April 25, 2004.
Panel Presentation: "Entrepreneurs and Communities in a
Global Local Economy," at the Lancaster Economy Forum,
Franklin & Marshall Local Economy Center, October 30,
2004.
Plenary Address, "America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our
Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy," at DEMOS,
November 16, 2004.
ADVISORY GROUPS, BOARDS, OTHER POSITIONS (Previous and Current
Selected)
Senior Economic Adviser, Youngstown Steel Project (Mahoning
Valley Ecumenical Coalition), 1977-1980.
Senior Economic Adviser and Co-Chair (with Mark Green)
"COIN" (Consumers Opposed to Inflation in the
Necessities: Coalition of 70 national consumer, senior
citizen, minority, labor, environmentalist, women's,
religious and other groups, working to fight inflation
in key sectors), 1977-1980.
Member, Task Force to Develop Long-Term Employment
Strategies, Full Employment Action Council, 1979.
Member, Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1979.
Member, Board of Directors, National Association of
Neighborhoods, 1976-1980.
Member, Task Force to Develop a Transportation Agenda for
the 1980s, Advisory to the U.S. Secretary of
Transportation, 1980.
Member, Board of Directors, National Consumers League, 1980-
1984.
Co-Chairman (with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief, Leonard
Rapping, David Gordon) of the Economic Issues
Commission of the Progressive Alliance (coalition of
senior citizen, civil rights, labor and other national
organizations), 1980-1983.
Member, Democratic National Committee Advisory Panel on
Promoting Economic Growth and Opportunity.
Member, American Committee on East-West Accord.
Senior Economic Consultant to the Chairman, Task Force on
Economic Policy, Budget Committee, U.S. House of
Representatives, 1984-1988.
Member, American Economic Association.
Member, American Historical Association.
Member, Association for Social Economics.
Member, American Political Science Association.
Member, Human Resources Committee, Council on
Competitiveness.
Member, American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations.
Member, Advisory Board, Coalition for a Comprehensive Test
Ban.
Member, Advisory Committee, Independent Sector.
Member, Advisory Committee, Institute for Local Self-
Reliance.
Co-Founder and Member of Executive Committee, The Committee
on the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS).
Member, Editorial Board, The Good Society
Member, United Nations Association/NCA Task Force on General
and Complete Disarmament
Member, Editorial Board, Tikkun
Member, Editorial Board, Solutions
Member Board of Directors, New Economic Institute
Member, Advisory Board, Gund Institute for Ecological
Economics
Member, Advisory Board, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Member, Advisory Board, COG (Capital Ownership Group)
Member, Advisory Board, Aspen Institute, Intersectoral
Relations Initiative
Member, Independent Sector Measures National Advisory Board
Member, Advisory Board, MIT CoLab (Community Innovators Lab)
Founding Steward, New Economic Network
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Pluralism
and Economics Education
MISCELLANEOUS
Selected Public Profiles:
"Taking Care of Business, Alperovitzian Economics," The
New York Times, March 18, 1977.
"A Dim View of Carter's Record, One on One with Gar
Alperovitz," The Milwaukee Journal, August 29,
1977.
"A New Look at Economic Realities," The Washington
Star, February 20, 1978.
"Nectar or Lemons," Mother Jones, April, 1978.
"People's Economist Thinks Change is a Must,' United
Press International. See, for instance, Chicago
Sun Times, July 16, 1978.
"In His Own Words: Consumer Economist Gar Alperovitz,"
People Magazine, March 5, 1979.
"The Case for Big Government," The New York Times, July
8, 1979.
"A Liberal Economist's New Ideas," The Wall Street
Journal, July 6, 1979.
"`It's the System ...,' An Interview with Gar
Alperovitz," Ecological Economics Bulletin, Vol.1
No. 2., April 1996.
"Citizen's Economics," interview, YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures, Spring, 1999.