Episode

5/30 Gar Alperovitz: Straight Talk On The Next American Revolution

May 30, 2013

Economist and author Gar Alperovitz, explained why reform won’t work, the political decline of organized labor, the local roots of the New Deal, why innovative economic reform is happening on the local level, the emerging American interest in Socialism, why serious banking and health reform will begin at the state level and why we are in a “pre history” moment.

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