After years of economic dislocation, recession and austerity, many people are wondering: Is there any alternative to the capitalist system? And if there is, how would we get there?
Few have the optimism of Gar Alperovitz, prize-winning historian and economist. Alperovitz, a political economist and historian at the University of Maryland, first became famous for a ground-breaking revisionist history of the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan, documenting how that decision had more to do with gaining an advantage in the coming Cold War than with ending World War II. ...