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The Democrats’ “Opportunity” Pitch Is a Dead End
The meritocratic pitch was emblematic of Democrats’ long march away from working-class voters.
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Lily Geismer
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Jacobin
on
December 11, 2024
The New Trumpian Bargain
Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.
by
Sohrab Ahmari
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New Statesman
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November 12, 2024
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The 2024 Election and America's Love Affair With Lotteries
Americans love games of chance, but history shows they're a poor substitute for a robust investment in public goods.
by
Carly Goodman
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Made By History
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November 12, 2024
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Tariffs Don’t Have to Make Economic Sense to Appeal to Trump Voters
Economists and Democrats dismiss Trump’s tariffs talk at their peril.
by
Bruce J. Schulman
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Made By History
on
October 24, 2024
In the 1970s, the Left Put a Good Crisis to Waste
In "Counterrevolution," Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability.
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Scott Aquanno
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Stephen Maher
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Jacobin
on
October 24, 2024
Trump Loves The 1890s But He’s Clueless About Them
The tariffs he keeps babbling about didn’t make that decade great. They helped usher in a depression.
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Eric Rauchway
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The Bulwark
on
October 23, 2024
Donald Trump Would Be Weaker the Second Time Around
Donald Trump wants the ideology of William McKinley and Gilded Age Republicanism, but with a totally different social base. It won’t work.
by
Paul Heidman
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Jacobin
on
October 23, 2024
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The Other Sherman’s March
How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.
by
Richard R. John
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HNN
on
October 22, 2024
The Deep Religious Roots of American Economics
Any attempt to understand the complexities of American economic thought without considering the significant role of religious beliefs is incomplete.
by
Benjamin M. Friedman
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The MIT Press Reader
on
September 5, 2024
Who Benefits From Sanctions?
According to authors of a new book on how Iran has coped with economic sanctions imposed by the U.S., no one does.
by
Zep Kalb
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Phenomenal World
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August 15, 2024
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The GOP's 72-Year-Old Inflation Playbook
Since the 1950s, the GOP has simplified the causes of inflation in order to blame Democrats.
by
Johnny Fulfer
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Made By History
on
August 14, 2024
Chinese Production, American Consumption
The convergence of economy and politics in the Sino-US relationship via Jonathan Chatwin’s “The Southern Tour” and Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson’s “Made in China.”
by
Kate Merkel-Hess
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 28, 2024
How Four U.S. Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe
U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?
by
Jeff Stein
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Federica Cocco
via
Washington Post
on
July 25, 2024
How the World’s Biggest Basketball Star Helped Richard Nixon Woo Black Voters
It was a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned out to be an illusion.
by
Shaun Assael
via
Politico Magazine
on
July 7, 2024
The Federal Reserve’s Little Secret
No one really knows how interest rates work—not the experts who study them, the investors who track them, or the officials who set them.
by
Rogé Karma
via
The Atlantic
on
June 27, 2024
Extravagances of Neoliberalism
On how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.
by
Melinda Cooper
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Benjamin Kunkel
via
The Baffler
on
May 13, 2024
How Did America Become the Nation of Credit Cards?
Americans have always borrowed, but how exactly did their lives become so entangled with the power of plastic cards?
by
Sean H. Vannatta
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Aeon
on
April 22, 2024
The Paradox of the American Labor Movement
It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.
by
Michael Podhorzer
via
The Atlantic
on
April 18, 2024
The First New Deal
Planning, market coordination, and the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933.
by
Sanjukta Paul
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Phenomenal World
on
March 28, 2024
Recovering the Left-Wing Free Trade Tradition
Free trade has been defended primarily by neoliberals who cared little about social justice or democracy. An examination of its history paints a different picture.
by
Marc-William Palen
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LPE Project
on
March 21, 2024
Eyes on the Farm Bill!
Congress’s periodic battles over the Farm Bill often pass unnoticed, but the document effectively determines what, how, and how much we eat.
by
Christopher Bosso
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 10, 2024
The Century of Milton Friedman
An interview with Jennifer Burns on her authoritative new biography of the American economist and the personal and intellectual origins of his theories.
by
Jennifer Burns
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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The Nation
on
February 5, 2024
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To Understand Trump's Appeal, Look to Alabama History
The transformation of Alabama politics in the 1960s and 1970s reflected the rise of a new version of Republicanism that Trump has perfected.
by
Ashley Steenson
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Made By History
on
January 25, 2024
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter
The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.
by
Krithika Varagur
via
The New Yorker
on
January 12, 2024
Free Trade's Origin Myth
American elites accepted the economic theory of "comparative advantage" mainly because it justified their geopolitical agenda.
by
Oren Cass
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Law & Liberty
on
January 2, 2024
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History Explains the Racial Wealth Gap
Ronald Reagan's economic policies exacerbated the racial wealth gap— and they've guided all his successors.
by
Calvin Schermerhorn
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Made By History
on
December 4, 2023
How Pinochet's Chile Became a Laboratory for Neoliberalism
The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.
by
Vincent Bevins
via
The Nation
on
November 14, 2023
The End of Milton Friedman’s Reign
The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.
by
Patrick Iber
via
The New Republic
on
November 13, 2023
Vacant Unsettled Lands
American thinkers consider what the already occupied West could fund.
by
Michael A. Blaakman
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 25, 2023
The 1970s Economic Theory That Needs to Die
Turns out you can tame inflation without triggering a recession. Will the Federal Reserve accept the good news?
by
Rogé Karma
via
The Atlantic
on
October 20, 2023
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