Of all of the Reaganite economic programs implemented, which was the most destructive and why? #RonaldReagan #supplyside #Taxcuts #HistoryofCapitalism

- slashing upper income taxes from 70 to 28%
- undermining labor unions
- Robert Bork view of antitrust
- SEC allows stock buybacks
- privatization
- #Deregulation of banks → Savings and Loans scandal (and maybe later the same mentality leading to 2008?)
- elimination of the #FairnessDoctrine in media
- something else?

#Histodons @histodons #OAH23 #AHA23

A graduate student contacted me looking to connect with other scholars.

Any suggestions?

Her background is #Architecturalhistory. Her dissertation brings #LosAngeles 's built environment into #NHOC and CA hist circa 1820--1900

#HistoryofCapitalism #CaliforniaHistory #HistoryofCalifornia

So a guy's putting out a #Book that everyone was talking about and I read one of his essays. Among his claims:

1. #Capitalism isn't racist -- look at Japan.
2. capitalism doesn't hurt env -- look at Soviet Union.

Is this serious analysis? No. C'mon man.

I wondered, who is most ideologically similar to him? R. Wright? P. Ma*ness? D. McCloskey? Maybe none would wish to attach themselves to this simplistic analysis?

#ClimateChange #histodons #HistoryofCapitalism #Racism

Glory Liu has a new book out on #AdamSmith. Having taught the #HistoryofCapitalism last year, I am excited to hear her interview with #SeanIlling.

And cheers to someone being a lecturer and presenting oneself as a #scholar and #historian. The title and workload often make that suffocatingly difficult.

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-gi336-16710835

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@histodons #EconomicHistory #Philosophy #Enlightenment #Books #Bookstodon

https://twitter.com/miss_glory/status/1511068617948901377

If you're thinking of a last-minute holiday gift:
https://www.amazon.com/Bank-War-Partisan-Press-Institutions/dp/0700627448/

#BankWar #AndrewJackson #Nicholas Biddle #Newspapers #FinancialHistory #PoliticalHistory #EconomicHistory #HistoryofCapitalism #PostOffice