Anton Jäger is a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, working on the history of populism in the United States. Together with Daniel Zamora, he is currently working on an intellectual history of basic income. You can follow him on twitter here.

December 8, 2022

Analysis

Money and the Climate Crisis

COP27 and financing the green transition

, Anna Gelpern, Avinash Persaud, Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Brad Setser, Adam Tooze

The conclusion of COP27 reflected persisting uncertainties around coordinated global action towards decarbonization. Major agreements—including the establishment of a loss and damage fund—were reached, but the burden of mounting debt among global South countries continued to limit climate ambition. The…

October 1, 2020

Analysis

A Popular History of the Fed

n Populist programs and democratic central banking.

, Noam Maggor

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…