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Michael Lind is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow at New America. His most recent book, coauthored with Robert D. Atkinson, is Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business.
In Land of Promise, Michael Lind argues that America’s political economy has historically oscillated between two schools of thought: Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians.
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