Gar Alperovitz

Many Americans are frustrated with our economic system and are worried that it is failing. Gar Alperovitz argues that the time is right for a new-economy movement to take shape to build a new system In What Then Must We Do? he proposes a new economic system that is not corporate capitalism, not state socialism, but something entirely American.

David Leonhardt, the "Economic Scene" columnist for the New York Times, talks about how Clinton, Edwards and Obama will deal with the economy. He's joined by Gar Alperovitz, professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, one of 34 economists who has endorsed John Edwards.