Andrew Yamakawa Elrod

Introducing a project on US labor history, exploring what we can learn from 1930s-1950s industrial struggles.

Celebrating the Federal Reserve as a cockpit for economic steering conceals the reality of where power lies today.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another.

On inflation, institutions, and the governance of the price level.

Before the rise of macroeconomics that accompanied World War II, price determination was a central problem of economic thought.

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.