My article on John Kenneth Galbraith’s concept of countervailing power, its reception amidst a climate of Cold War conformism, and the implications for the trajectory of economic method thereafter — published last week in @mihjournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Postwar American Economics and the Fate of Countervailing Power | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Postwar American Economics and the Fate of Countervailing Power

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"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky

Who will protect the Earth from the pillage and spillage of mankind? Our new issue, “Bloom and Gloom,” surveys the mess we’ve made of our planet, and describes the terrain on which we stage the battle for its ecological future. thebaffler.com/issues/no-82

For the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Ibanca Anand recounts how midcentury US growth economists' influential models of "multi-factor productivity" in agriculture systematically occluded the role of labor and supported narrow, warped criteria of economic health.

Zvi Griliches and the Productivity Puzzle in Midcentury American Agriculture

by Ibanca Anand This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

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