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Don’t Give in on Economics

Nov 22, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong

With the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 election, the United States followed a global anti-establishment trend into an era of uncertainty and paradox. Trump once again tapped into decades-long popular frustrations, winning working-class voters with policy plans that are at best uneven. And now, in the early days of his transition, he is filling key roles with titans of industry and finance (and at least two Fox News hosts).
The Other Side of Tuesday: A Long View of this Political Moment

Nov 7, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Felicia Wong

In the last week before Election Day, two major pieces went beyond our collective polling doomscroll and took a long view of our uncertain moment. In the New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann’s “Bidenomics Is Starting to Transform America: Why Has No One Noticed?” argues that the transformation in economic thinking we have seen in both parties over the last four years actually has longer roots.
The Other Side of Tuesday: A Long View of this Political Moment

Nov 4, 2024 | firesidestacks.com | Felicia Wong

In the last week before Election Day, two major pieces went beyond our collective polling doomscroll and took a long view of our uncertain moment. In the New Yorker,Nicholas Lemann’s “Bidenomics Is Starting to Transform America: Why Has No One Noticed?” argues that the transformation in economic thinking we have seen in both parties over the last four years actually has longer roots.
Getting There From Here: What Comes Next

May 29, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong |Matt Hughes

The Pandemic: An End, But Not (Yet) a BeginningIt is 2024, and somehow we act as though the pandemic changed nothing. We pretend that 2024 is just a worse version of politics as usual. The same political parties and the same policy fights, but more extreme. The same candidates, but older. That’s a mistake, and a misunderstanding of this generation-defining moment.
The Middle-Out Moment Is Here

Mar 13, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong |Todd Tucker |Heidi Shierholz |Bharat Ramamurti

By The Editors from Spring 2024, No. 72 – 1 MIN READ Tagged symposium intro Eleven years ago, this journal published a symposium called “The Middle-Out Moment,” touting a new theory of growth no one had heard of. Today, everyone has heard of middle-out economics, but most people still don’t know exactly what it is.
A New Economics Takes Hold

Mar 13, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong |Nick Hanauer |David J. Goldstein

Eleven years ago, Democracy journal boldly declared a “Middle-Out Moment” in which the time had come, wrote co-author Hanauer and Eric P. Liu, to “kill the myth of trickle-down economics—and to replace it with the true story of middle-out economics.” We should have known better.
The Productivist Era Has Begun

Jun 13, 2023 | democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong |K. Sabeel Rahman

“Productivism” has arrived. Economist Dani Rodrik recently declared “a major re-orientation” toward an economics “that is rooted in production, work, and localism instead of finance, consumerism, and globalism.” After almost 40 years of neoliberalism’s markets-first, market-led growth, under which the entire elite political class in the United States came of age, we have turned a corner. Intellectually, productivism is a major new economic worldview.
A Tale of Two Industrial Policies

Jan 26, 2023 | almendron.com | Felicia Wong |Todd Tucker

Tensions roiled the annual World Economic Forum meetings in Davos earlier this month. Anxious diplomats and business leaders wondered whether China and the United States might de-escalate their confrontation and bury the hatchet. While continuing to endure a pandemic that has upended everyday life for years, Europeans have grappled with the ramifications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the form of an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis.
A Tale of Two Industrial Policies

Jan 26, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Felicia Wong |Todd Tucker |Scott Snyder |Adam Segal

Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions Tensions roiled the annual World Economic Forum meetings in Davos earlier this month. Anxious diplomats and business leaders wondered whether China and the United States might de-escalate their confrontation and bury the hatchet.