Felicia Wong

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1 month ago | rooseveltinstitute.org | Stephen Nuñez |Felicia Wong |Mike Konczal |Marshall Steinbaum

In this report, we seek to offer an analysis of the people, institutions, and history that brought us to this moment in economic policymaking. From the Green New Deal, to the American Rescue Plan, we look at key economic moments and what has been accomplished and what remains to be done if we are to see a sustained transition toward more progressive economic governance.
Rewiring Regulation: Regulatory Review for a New Political Economy

Nov 1, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | K. Sabeel Rahman |Felicia Wong |Suzanne Kahn |Mike Konczal

IntroductionIn recent years, the executive branch has become an increasingly central focus for policymaking on both the left and the right. Among progressive advocates, there has been a growing attention to how executive action might help advance progressive priorities, from climate to racial and gender equity to imbalances of economic power, and more.
The New US Trade Agenda: Institutionalizing Middle-Out Economics in Foreign Commercial Policy

Oct 20, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Felicia Wong |Todd Tucker |Kate Gordon |Satyam Khanna

Executive SummaryOver the past few years, the United States has made the most significant change in its approach to trade in generations. Starting in the 1970s, trade policy was focused on neoliberal priorities such as promoting efficiency through tariff and cost reductions and limiting the space for purely national regulation of commerce.
Entrenched Power: How Shareholder-Owned Electric Utilities Hinder the Clean Energy Transition

Sep 19, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Niko Lusiani |Lauren Melodia |Kristina Karlsson |Felicia Wong

I. IntroductionThe United States is in the beginning stages of a momentous energy transition. In the next few decades, our country must move away from an arcane, centralized, fossil fuel–based energy system and toward a more decentralized, renewable system promising to “electrify everything”—from heating, to cooking, to transport, to data processing, and beyond.
How Neoliberalism Failed, and What a Better Society Could Look Like

Aug 7, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Joseph Stiglitz |Kyle Strickland |Felicia Wong |Mike Konczal

The following is adapted from a speech given at a New School conference, “Beyond Neoliberalism and Neo-Illiberalism: Economic Policies and Performance for Sustainable Democracy,” on March 27, 2023. IntroductionBefore we can see what a post-neoliberal economy and society might look like, we need to identify neoliberalism’s failures. We already know many of neoliberalism’s economic failures—most notably slower growth, greater inequality, and increased monopolization.
The Economic Legacy of the Biden Years, and the Path Forward

Jul 24, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Felicia Wong

When President Biden took office three and a half years ago, old ways of thinking about the economy were already falling out of favor—among academics, organizers, and the American public. Market fundamentalism just wasn’t working. After the Great Recession and a subsequent decade of slow economic growth, and at the height of a devastating pandemic, trickle-down economics had zero credibility and fewer fans by the day.
Building the Government We Need: A Framework for Democratic State Capacity

Jun 6, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | K. Sabeel Rahman |Felicia Wong |Suzanne Kahn |Mike Konczal

IntroductionIn 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic raging and the economy in free fall, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan, issuing billions of dollars of emergency economic relief. The bill included, among many other programs, directives for the Treasury Department to provide direct household economic support through a massive new Child Tax Credit.
The Cultural Contradictions of Neoliberalism: The Longing for an Alternative Order and the Future of Multiracial Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism - Roosevelt Institute

Apr 18, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Shahrzad Shams |Deepak Bhargava |Harry Hanbury |Felicia Wong

Executive SummaryNeoliberalism—the ideological, economic, and cultural paradigm that has reigned in the United States and around the world since the 1970s—is under siege. Progressives have offered a compelling alternative vision for how a post-neoliberal economy and government should work, and they have scored notable policy successes in recent years.
Industrial Policy 2025: Bringing the State Back In (Again)

Feb 11, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Felicia Wong |Suzanne Kahn |Mike Konczal |Matt Hughes

ForewordThis collection of essays is a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary analysis by a diverse group of scholars from around the world that aims to answer the question: What institutions and strategies are missing from US industrial policy that could help it be more successful? The collection looks at the potential tools of economic statecraft that could complement the tax credits and grants that have formed the core of the Biden administration’s first-term industrial agenda.
The Scary Third Meaning of Freedom

Jan 21, 2024 | portside.org | Felicia Wong |Michael Tomasky |Jefferson R. Cowie

The Scary Third Meaning of Freedom Published January 21, 2024 Vanderbilt historian Jefferson Cowie has written several highly influential volumes in his career, including Stayin’ Alive, about the 1970s, and The Great Exception, on the New Deal. This year, he struck gold with his newest work, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. In April, it won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.