The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) and the Political Economy Research Institute are proud to host Gar Alperovitz next Thursday, Oct. 10, when he will present a talk titled “Is there an America Beyond Capitalism?”
Alperovitz, a political economist and historian, is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. He is also the co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, a research institute developing strategies to build community wealth that helped establish the Cleveland-based Evergreen Cooperatives, worker-owned co-op businesses that provide living wage jobs to residents of that city’s poorest neighborhoods. The Evergreen Cooperatives served as a model for the Wellspring Collaborative, an economic and job development program that CPPA has helped establish in Springfield, Mass.
In addition to his work as a leader in the new economy movement, Alperovitz is an acclaimed historian of the decision to drop the atomic bomb, and the author of numerous books, including most recently, What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution.
Thursday, Oct. 10 at 4 p.m., Gordon Hall third floor.