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A Historian of Economic Crisis on the World After COVID-19

A leading expert on financial crises explains how the pandemic is upending economic orthodoxy and raising the stakes of the 2020 election.

by Eric Levitz, Adam Tooze via Intelligencer on August 7, 2020

Several stores in a 20th century shopping mall

Paul Samuelson Brought Mathematical Economics to the Masses

Paul Samuelson’s mathematical brilliance changed economics, but it was his popular touch that made him a household name.

by Roger Backhouse via Aeon on February 10, 2020

Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

by Gabriel Winant via The Nation on January 21, 2020

Bitcoin Dreams

The pitfalls and the potential of cryptocurrency are explored in three recent publications.

by Kevin Werbach via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 20, 2019

Atlas Weeps

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on December 12, 2018

When Economists Took Socialism Seriously

If there’s one thing worth taking away from the new White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument.

by Tim Barker via Dissent on October 25, 2018

Reagan poses for a photo op after with a stack of tax cut legislation in 1981.

I Helped Create the GOP Tax Myth. Trump is Wrong: Tax Cuts Don’t Equal Growth.

The best growth in recent memory came after President Bill Clinton raised taxes in the ’90s.

by Bruce Bartlett via Washington Post on September 28, 2017

Sign saying "WHIP INFLATION NOW" with image of Uncle Sam whipping a personification of inflation

The Rise of Inflation

Understanding how inflation came to be a mainstay in modern economics.

by Rebecca L. Spang via Cabinet on June 14, 2013

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