i will link to my interview with melinda cooper in the show notes. It's a really good one, and her book is excellent. What about sident jimmy carter's idiology? How did the leader of a democratic party that had embraced full employment come to so readily embrace austerity? i think one way into it is to think about carter as an individual. He's not connected to the kind of labor liberal traditions that had sustained someone like hubert humphrey.
Inflation is once again at the center of political debate. Dan interviews Tim Barker to put monetary policy in its historical and class war context.
Reading:
Preferred Shares by Tim Barker phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wage-share
email digradiopod@gmail.com for PDFs of the following two articles:
The Vietnam War and the Political Economy of Full Employment by Dean Baker, Robert Pollin and Elizabeth Zahrt
Class Conflict and the "Natural Rate of Unemployment" by Robert Pollin
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