Noam Maggor is Senior Lecturer in American history at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age (2017). His current project, entitled The United States as a Developing Nation revisits American capitalism in the nineteenth century from a broad comparative perspective. You can follow him on twitter here

January 16, 2025

Analysis

Developmental Tracks

American railroad regulation as industrial policy

Recent years have seen an astonishing resurgence of industrial policy as a legislative agenda and topic for lively debate. Thanks in large part to the waning political fortunes of neoliberalism, deliberate efforts by governments to shape the economic trajectories of…

March 24, 2022

Interviews

Tax Regimes

An interview with Robin Einhorn

Tax cuts and austerity have been a central feature of American politics in recent decades—just recently, the Build Back Better bill was blocked under the guise of fiscal responsibility. The work of Robin Einhorn, Preston Hotchkis Professor in the History…

October 1, 2020

Analysis

A Popular History of the Fed

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

Since Lehman collapsed in 2008, central banks have broken free of historical norms, channelling trillions into the banking system to prop up global finance and the savings of depositors from Germany to Hong Kong. The corona crash has only accelerated…