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In the next few blog posts, we’ll start to unpack American Keynesianism. What was it? Who advocated for it? What did it accomplish? To do this, we’ll read some of the major writings on American Keynesianism, and summarize the findings with an eye towards synthesis. We’re world building here, so we’ll need some characters andContinue reading “A Little World Building”

Since the Global Financial Crisis, Americans have been trying to rethink our political economy. The meltdown seemed to expose the previous thirty years — the so-called “Great Moderation” — as something of a mirage, an illusion that masked growing inequality, financialization, and slower growth. As we all try to figure out what to do aboutContinue reading “Introducing RGK – “What’s in a name?””