Gar Alperovitz

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Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. His latest book is What Then Must We Do? Democratizing Wealth and Building a Community Sustaining Economy From the Ground Up.

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