# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gar-alperovitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:16:44.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gar-alperovitz"
name: "Gar Alperovitz"
slug: "gar-alperovitz"
description: "Gar Alperovitz is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom; a founding fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution; and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics from 1999 to 2015. He also served as a legislative director in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate and as a special assistant in the US Department of State. Alperovitz is a distinguished lecturer with the American Historical Society, co-founded the Democracy Collaborative and co-chairs its Next System Project with James Gustav Speth."
tagline: "American historian, economist"
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birthDate: "1936-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump