Books written by Gar Alperovitz

Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era

19. Dawson , “ Start - Ups and Replication , " 133 ; Dresser and Rogers , “ Networks , Sectors , and Workforce Learning , " 72 . 20. Dresser and Rogers , “ Networks , Sectors , and Workforce Learning , " 72 . 21. John Howe and Mark ...
Rebuilding America

11 Professor Willard Mueller at the University of Wisconsin observes : The removal of a business ' headquarters from a community has secondary and tertiary effects as it dries up ... There was a bomb , but it wasn't wired properly .
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature

The world has changed dramatically.
Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era

Indeed , the Sanders document can be viewed as a summation and exposition of how many progressive activists and economists now think about how to deal with an increasingly integrated global economy . The Sanders bill holds that ...
Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era

Making a Place for Community argues that this death of community is being caused by contemporary policies that, if not changed, will continue to foster the decline of community.
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

OECD in Figures: Statistics on the Member Countries (Paris: OECD, 2002), pp. 6–7. 10. ... Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. 119–120.
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

Looks at the problems with America's current economic system offers a revolutionary way forward that the author claims is not corporate capitalism or state socialism, but rather a system that is uniquely American.
Atomic Diplomacy

Atomic Diplomacy
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

With a new preface by the author Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance

"Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men in the world, was worth over $60 billion in 2008. Does he "deserve" all this money? Ask Buffett himself and he will acknowledge...
Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam : the Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power

'A daring and elaborate work of historical reconstruction.' New York Review of Books'Since its publication almost everyone who has written about the beginning of the atomic age has praised or...
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

"Democratizing wealth and building a community-sustaining economy from the gorund up"--Jacket.
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

With a new preface by the author Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

In What Then Must We Do? Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, ...
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-society-in-nature

The world has changed dramatically.
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

"Be prepared for a mind-opening experience."-The Christian Century"Highly readable; excellent for students. . . . A tonic and eye-opener for anyone who wants a politics that works."-Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor,...
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: And the Architecture of an American Myth

This book rewrites history, arguing that the real reason the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Japan was to see off a surrender negotiated by the Russians and not, as...