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Gar and Martin Sherwin in the LA Times: “U.S. leaders knew we didn’t have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway”

Gar Alperovitz and Martin Sherwin write in the LA Times: At a time when Americans are reassessing so many painful aspects of our nation’s past, it is an opportune moment to have an honest national conversation about our use of nuclear weapons on Japanese cities in August 1945. The fateful decision to inaugurate the nuclear […]

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75th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Japan: A discussion

Gar Alperovitz joins with other scholars to discuss the US atomic bombing of Japan 75 years ago. In this first webinar – found here – Barbara Cochran moderates a discussion with Gar Alperovitz, Kai Bird, Peter Kuznick, and Martin Sherwin. For information on the participants and other material, refer to the following link. In this […]

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A conversation with Gar Alperovitz and John McKnight

On July 22, 2020, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics hosted a virtual conversation with Gar Alperovitz and John McKnight. The conversation was moderated by Jodie Evans. They reflected on their original talks [at the Schumacher Center] given current political, economic, and social realities and commented on each other’s work For more information on […]

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A response to Sam Gindin

I was surprised to read Sam Gindin’s characterization of my views on worker-ownership and cooperatives in his recent article “Chasing Utopia.” I agree with Wolff and Wright that worker-owned and self-directed firms make sense in a number of areas—and with Gindin’s judgment that “in general, factory takeovers and co-ops should be enthusiastically supported.” However, they are […]

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Wall Street Journal embracing the democratization of wealth?

Just three years ago, I worked with the staff here at the Democracy Collaborative to write this article, which made a very basic point about the way systemic solutions to economic inequality were treated by the business paper of record, the Wall Street Journal.  As you can see, business structures that directly democratized ownership of […]

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