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

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.

, 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…