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David Stein

@davidstein.bsky.social

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Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Notable: Paul Volcker’s father—his hero—was the city manager of Teaneck, NJ.

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Garcetti will advise the company on public-private partnerships, government policy and urban infrastructure strategy, according to Metropolis.” 😐 mynewsla.com/business/202...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Excited to share that this article received honorable mention for the Constance M. Rourke prize for best article in American Quarterly. Congrats to Sam Ikehara and all the other winners! www.theasa.net/about/news-e...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I’ll be speaking at this exciting @rooseveltinstitute.org event on Tuesday with Clara Mattei, @bilalb.bsky.social, and Ira Regmi. And I’ll be bringing one of the best charts of New Deal economic analysis you’ll ever see.

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Urgent piece by @trevorgriffey.bsky.social on Gavin Newsom’s massive cuts to higher ed, and the refusal of Democratic electeds to resist. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/04/will...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Very resonant piece from @awalkerinla.bsky.social on the fires. www.torched.la/zero-percent...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

“His private virtues proved to be public vices: The same thrift and moral seriousness that make Carter stand out also fed into his austerity policies —which proved to be political suicide in 1980….” - @timbarker.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ourtime/...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

4/5 To return to the NAIRU, in many ways, it comes back to something @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social wrote in Golden Gulag--that the "[NAIRU's] sociological presence is bounded by the fatal coupling of power and difference.”

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

3/5 It was also inspired by a question Chris Newfield posed in AQ in 2008, and one that has haunted my thinking since I read it: can American Studies do economics?

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

2/5 (3) a history of stagflation that takes those aforementioned alternatives seriously. It also seeks to address the subject formations and belief systems of those who are empowered to manage the monetary and credit system, centrally the US Treasury and Federal Reserve.

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

1/5 🧵Really happy to have a long-gestating piece in this issue. It connects several threads that I’ve been circling around for the past decade: (1) the racial, gendered and social politics of the NAIRU; (2)alternative modes of inflation management; and... muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Toni Morrison vs NAIRU, 1988. HT

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