Profile: Charlie Derber

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Charles Derber is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College who also writes for general audiences, offering not only sociological critiques but alternative visions for our development. He feels that if sociologists have something important to say, then they should write in a clear and simple way, rather than dress their arguments up in technical jargon. His op-eds, essays, and interviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsweek, Business Week, Time, Newsday, and other magazines. He speaks frequently on National Public Radio, on talk radio, and on television. 

Here are comments on his new book, From Greed to Green:

“Charles Derber’s urgent call to action on climate change connects to realistically upbeat ways to help resolve our energy, peace, and employment challenges. To read this book is to react with personal and social action."
—Ralph Nader

"There's no way to solve climate change without also shifting, in profound ways, our idea of what constitutes success and growth and progress. This is the right book at the right—and crucial—moment.”
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and creator of the student-based "Step It Up" campaign

Charles Derber's books include:

• Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again, and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good (co-authored with Yale Magrass, 2008).
  
• The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values (with Katherine Adam, 2008),
  
• The Wilding of America: Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream (2006),
  
• Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (2005),
  
• People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis (2003),
  
• Corporate Nation (2000),
  
• The Pursuit of Attention (2000),
  
• The Nuclear Seduction (with William Schwartz, 1993),
  
• Power in the Highest Degree (with William Schwartz and Yale Magrass, 1990).