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J. W. Mason

J. W. Mason is Assistant Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is also a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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Class & Inequality

The Market Police

In the neoliberal project, state power is needed to enforce market relations. But because democratic politics can demand broader economic planning, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

J. W. Mason

Politics

Austerity by Design

Yanis Varoufakis's lessons for reasserting European social democracy.

J. W. Mason

J. W. Mason

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Class & Inequality

The Market Police

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Austerity by Design

What Statistics Can't Tell Us in the Fight over Affirmative Action at Harvard

The Private Edward Gorey

How to Think About Empire

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Trump’s Foreign Policy Isn’t the Problem

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