Gar Alperovitz Podcast – Gar Alperovitz

Podcast: Conversation with David Harvey on Capitalism

Gar Alperovitz — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:21:32 +0000

TeleSUR English’s “The Laura Flanders Show” hosted a conversation with economic theorists Gar Alperovitz and David Harvey on what is to be done about wealth inequality and capitalism, and efforts currently underway to move beyond them.

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Podcast: Interview with Disorderly Conduct’s Jesse Myerson

Gar Alperovitz — Thu, 22 May 2014 14:19:10 +0000

Alexis Goldstein and Jesse Myerson host “Disorderly Conduct,” a podcast dedicated to making economic and financial news accessible. Gar Alperovitz spoke with Myerson for the program’s April 29 edition about the features of an alternative to capitalism: the Pluralist Commonwealth.

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Part 2 of my conversation with Peter Buffett: “If you don’t have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you’re not in the game.”

Gar Alperovitz — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:12:23 +0000

Picking up where the short introductory excerpt left off, this next segment from our long conversation finds Peter Buffett and myself discussing the influence that growing up Midwestern had on both of us, and how these early experiences of community have shaped—for the better (we hope)!—the way we each try to talk about systemic challenges and solutions.

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A preview of my conversation with Peter Buffett

Gar Alperovitz — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:21:30 +0000

The following segment is an excerpt and preview of a conversation that took place between myself and Peter Buffett: composer, chairman of the NOVO Foundation, and son of investor Warren Buffett. Peter’s op-ed last year in the New York Times on the “charitable industrial complex”—retweeted over 8000 times and liked and shared by over a hundred thousand people on Facebook—was not only a stunning and unexpected indictment of the philanthropic status quo, but a bold call to imagine a new economy. This latter aspect—Peter’s demand for, as he put it, “concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market”—led to the conversation excerpted here, when I sat down with Peter at the close of 2013 for a discussion of systemic crisis and the possibility of hope. The full conversation will appear soon.

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Bioneers Radio (with Ted Howard)

Gar Alperovitz — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:29:47 +0000

The good folks at Bioneers Radio recently put together this great short program featuring myself and my Democracy Collaborative colleague Ted Howard:

A Parade of Dwarves: Democratizing Wealth for a New Economy

GAR ALPEROVITZ and TED HOWARD

Podcast: Left Forum 2013

Gar Alperovitz — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:33:12 +0000

In June at Pace University in New York City, I participated in a number of panels, two of which are available as podcasts.

The first panel was an exchange with my friend and colleague, Marxian economist Richard Wolff, regarding workplace democracy and democratic ownership.

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Introduction – Maliha Safri

7:00 – Opening statements by Richard Wolff

36:00 – Statement by Gar Alperovitz

1:03:00 Questions

1:09:00 Richard Wolff responds

1:18:00 Gar Alperovitz responds

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In the second panel, “Is There an Ecologically Sustainable Alternative? Democracy, Planning and Markets in the Next System,” I had a lively discussion with researcher Richard Smith of Institute for Policy Research and Development.

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Introduction

2:15 Richard Smith

32:00 Gar Alperovitz

56:00 Q&A

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Podcast: Interview with The Progressive’s Matthew Rothschild

Gar Alperovitz — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:28:02 +0000

In this wide-ranging May 6th interview with Gar Alperovitz, Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine and host of Progressive Radio, spent a half hour exploring themes of the new book, What Then Must We Do?

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Podcast: Interview with Doug Cunningham of The People’s Mic Wisconsin

Gar Alperovitz — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:23:13 +0000

On April 17, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative hosted a talk for What Then Must We Do? in Madison, Wisconsin. Earlier that day, Doug Cunningham, host of The People’s Mic program, invited Gar Alperovitz to speak about some of the themes of the book on the air for Madison’s own Workers Independent News, FM 92.1.

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Podcast: How System Change Can Come To America with Gus Speth

Gar Alperovitz — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:04:10 +0000

On September 19, 2012, the New Economy Working Group hosted a discussion and question-and-answer period regarding the possibilities of introducing system change in the context of the United States.

Featuring Gar Alperovitz and James “Gus” Speth, formerly a presidential advisor, Administrator of the United Nations Development Program and dean of Yale Forestry School, the discussion was moderated by John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Podcast: Discussing movement building with Matthew Roschild

Gar Alperovitz — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:16:36 +0000

Matthew Roschild, the editor of The Progressive magazine and host of Progressive Radio, invited me on to the program to discuss capitalism, social movements, and the intersection of activism and politics.

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