Julia Ott is Associate Professor in the History of Capitalism and codirector of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College at the New School. She is the author of When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2011), which received the Vincent DeSantis Prize from the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in 2013. Her research examines how financial institutions, practices, and theories influence American political culture and how, in turn, policies and political beliefs shape economic behavior and outcomes.
Julia Ott
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Public Thinker: Kim Phillips-Fein on Austerity and the Fall of New York
With New York City teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse at the end of 1975, Congress passed … [none-for-homepage]
Public Thinker: Kim Phillips-Fein on Austerity and the Fall of New York
With New York City teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse at the end of 1975, Congress passed … [none-for-homepage]
Choosing Growth
Recently, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt defended the withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord by alleging that the agreement had placed “constraints on the economy.” Rather than regulations, Pruitt promised, it was “technology and innovation” breakthroughs in the private sector that would curb carbon emissions, create new jobs, and spur economic […]
Tax the Rich?
If you’re wondering whether former Bernie enthusiasts and Trump supporters might find common ground in progressive tax policies that benefit the 99 percent, well, it’s doubtful that Taxing the Rich …
