Word: alperovitz
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SOME OF THE snarpest prickles from the Cactus Leftists have come from the Exploratory Project on Economic Alternatives, a D.C.-based, foundation-sponsored research operation. EPEA is headed by Gar Alperovitz, a highly-respected leftist economist who was even mentioned for Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Alperovitz's response to the wishful-thinkers was, "Thanks but no thanks...
...Western response to Soviet military and political aggression than as a result of American efforts to continue a long process of economic expansion in the form of an "informal empire" (based on a form of free trade known as the "Open Door policy"). Other scholars, notably Gar Alperovitz, Barton J. Bernstein, Walter LeFeber, Thomas McCormick, and Gabriel Kolko have illustrated the workings of open-door expansion in specific cases. Fortunately, the dynamics of Soviet polities have been sufficiently explored by Deutscher, Moore, Marcuse, Shulman, and Ulam to show that NATO was based on an inflated myth and that Stalin actually...
...ideology of intellectual, political, and business leaders. By 1898, a consensus view had emerged, to the effect "that the system of entrepreneurial capitalism could function successfully only if the marketplace constantly expanded." This conviction necessarily caused military and diplomatic involvements in defense of our overseas interests, although, as Gar Alperovitz has said, the ideological and economic threads have become too tangled now to argue a simple cause and effect sequence...