My theory of how economics interacts with policy is a bit more complicated than some more popular accounts. Very good studies on the anthropology of economics as a profession and policy-making discipline. For example, Marion Fourcade, and Elizabeth Popp Berman's work, have noted that economics' political influence and professional formation| Building a Ruin
Hi All, My mailbox exploded in the past few weeks with notifications that people were signing up for this website. My initial reaction was a bit of confusion about how this happened. Then I realized Adam Tooze was engaging with me. Tooze's Wages of Destruction is why I decided to| Building a Ruin
There is a running meme on the internet with relatively left-leaning, younger folks who we'd take to be left-liberals involving taking Chinese propaganda pictures of Joe Biden and the United States in general and asking why it makes him look so cool. I mean, it kind of does. He's sitting| Building a Ruin
Hi Readers, As some of you know, I teach a course on economic policies in emerging markets at Tufts' GBA program. I like this course and am slowly but surely making it my own, editing the readings and lecture setups. I open the classes by asking students to define an| Building a Ruin
Last week, I organized a conference on various dimensions of coordination in implementing an industrial policy as part of Berggruen's Coordination Problem series. The meeting was held under Chatham-House rules, so I will not discuss specifics. I will be producing a report on broad outcomes and lessons in my capacity| Building a Ruin
Ezra Klein published a column calling for a "liberalism that builds." More specifically, he endorsed Brian Deese's invocation of "industrial policy" to "expand productive capacity beyond what the market, on its own, would support." I am very heartened by this. Klein is a barometer for polite Washington D.C. discourse| Building a Ruin
The SVB bailout has made me very mad. Not because it is a particularly egregious bailout. Compared to the 2008 crisis, only depositors above the FDIC limit are getting bailed out. There is a lot of substantive debate about whether that is ok or not and what the consequences will| Building a Ruin