Michael Hudson, Stephanie Kelton, et al: Why Monetary Theory and Policy Is a Critical Terrain For the Left (Left Forum 2018)

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with Michael Hudson
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June 7, 2018

OpenUnivoftheLeft on June 5, 2018

Left Forum 2018: As our demands grow bolder—true full employment, the rebuilding of the social safety net starting with Medicare for All, an overdue green and just transition—so will the naysayers’ inevitable refrain: “How will you pay for it?” Developments in our understanding of monetary theory and the money system has, thankfully, illuminated a path forward out of the trap of austerity: when we understand how money actually works, we know that the obstacles to bold action at a national scale on jobs, healthcare, and climate are political, not economic.

Gar Alperovitz: What Might a New Economy Look Like?

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TheRealNews on Jan 27, 2014

Mr. Alperovitz tells Paul Jay there are existing models that point to what a new economy and politics might look like.

Gar Alperovitz: The Promise and Limitations of Worker Co-ops

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TheRealNews on Jan 26, 2014

Mr. Alperovitz tells Paul Jay, the experience of Spain’s Mondragon, the world’s largest workers’ co-op, shows that workers’ ownership can go to scale but on their own, co-ops will not transform society or the economy.

Gar Alperovitz: Capitalism is in Long Term Stagnation and Decay

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TheRealNews on Jan 25, 2014

Mr. Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that if you concentrate wealth at the top, there’s not enough purchasing power to make the rest of the system work.

Gar Alperovitz: Nuclear Attack on Japan was Opposed by American Military Leadership

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TheRealNews·Jan 24, 2014

On Reality Asserts Itself Mr. Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that President Truman used the A-bomb to make a “diplomatic” point to the Soviet Union, not out of military necessity.

Gar Alperovitz: Understanding the Imperialist System Changed My Life

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TheRealNews on Jan 22, 2014

On Reality Asserts Itself Mr. Alperovitz tells TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay, that the Vietnam War made it clear there was no way to a more rational capitalism and there had to be fundamental change.

Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of Ownership

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TheRealNews·Feb 13, 2013

Can co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned?

Gar Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism

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Oct 13, 2012 by talkingsticktv

Talk by Gar Alperovitz author of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy recorded October 3, 2012 at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, WA by Todd Boyle.

Gar Aleperovitz: Public Banking in America (with Ellen Brown’s introduction)

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with Ellen Brown
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webofdebt.com
May 5, 2012

May 6, 2012 by brightpathvideo

Public Banking In America Conference, Philadelphia, April 27-28.
Opening remarks by PBI president, Ellen Brown with keynote address by political economist, Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism” with Ralph Nader, Ted Howard and John Cavanagh

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DemocracyCollab on Dec 8, 2011

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With Ralph Nader, Ted Howard and John Cavanagh

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The Occupy movement now building around the country is a necessary and justified response to the outrages of a political-economic system that looks the other way as the top 1 percent runs off with almost a fourth of the nation’s income and more wealth than the bottom 90 percent taken together. The reality is that the challenge is systemic, not merely political.