one great thing about the oral history interviews interpolated in this and other episodes are the Euro-ethnic accents from a less homogenized white America

I cannot overstate the importance of the Internet Archive for accessing books that are out of print and otherwise inaccessible…

🆕 It's time for policymakers to rethink the deficit obsession that has curtailed progressive priorities for decades. David Stein traces the rise of the deficit-hawk paradigm, arguing that it must go for us to achieve a high-care, low-carbon future. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/t…

Re-upping this humble request: what are your fave histories of capitalism, labor, and industrialization in the northern U.S. in the first half of the nineteenth century?

New from David Stein & Roosevelt Institute : “Democratic deficit hawks ratcheted down the expectations of governments, suggesting that the most important thing policymakers could do is not to provide for the public, but to satisfy private investors.” rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/t…

New from David Stein at Roosevelt Institute: How the deficit hawks wreaked havoc on economic policymaking over the past 50 years. My favorite part: the striking parallel between Biden and Kennedy's approaches to full employment rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/t…

New today: David Stein argues for moving beyond the deficit-hawk paradigm by looking at what came before. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/t…

"In short, Democrats need to slough off the shackled imagination of deficit-hawk politics to meaningfully confront the clear challenges ahead."

Just to make this outcome clear, before the legacy media puts its awful spin on this: the appointment to PM of Michel Barnier, a 73 year-old rightwing retread who represents one of the smallest groups in the parliament, represents a pact between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

we got a good one today y'all! @davidpstein on the rise of deficit hawkery: "Producing a public good or service ceased to be the key metric of sound economic policymaking. Instead, a policy’s cost-effectiveness or impact on the deficit took precedence." rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/t…

excited about this one from David Stein .. going on my economics & public policy syllabus

Next Wednesday at 7pm, the one and only Isabella M. Weber will be speaking at John Jay College (where I teach) in midtown Manhattan. I think this talk is going to be packed, so if yoiu want a seat, better get there early! johnjayeconomics.org/isabella-weber…

Read David Stein’s new brief at the Roosevelt Institute!