The coalition also encompassed tens of millions of home owners and shareholders, always relatively large in the united states. This rentier middle class was subsequently expanded and consolidated by decades of neo liberal policy. Why did home owners join the reaction against inflation, for tight money in the seventies? As mortgage debtors, wouldn't they have benefited from inflation? Because inflation reduced the value of their debts to the bank.
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
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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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