Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has written on nuclear weapons and the origins of the Cold War and on new possibilities for systemic change in advanced societies. His books include Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (1965), The Decision To Use The Atomic Bomb (1995), and America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy. A new book, Unjust Deserts (2008), with Lew Daly, deals with the socially created and inherited sources of wealth and the implications for a new theory of distribution.

Lecture topics:

• The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
• Long-term Systemic Change in the Twenty-first Century
• Socially Created Wealth and Its Distribution and Maldistribution

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