Meg Jacobs

"If you think you are a parent, and the kids think so too, then you are one," @MegJacobs100 writes. "We should celebrate Momala and her blended family as a model of love, responsibility, and care": theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“The lesson of the 1970s is that the only way for real, permanent change is to offer a better life,” writes @MegJacobs100 cnn.com/opinions/elect…

Green energy and green jobs. cnn.com/opinions/elect…

@ddayen Here’s a good visual that sums it all up. Housewives fighting inflation in the name of patriotism

Among other things, Jacobs shows how the high cost of living was fought in prior eras, not with reliance on monetary policy but by cracking down on corporate power and raising worker purchasing power: prospect.org/economy/2023-0…

Economic modeling dominates policymaking and puts invisible handcuffs on the process. But there was a time when economics played a far different role. @MegJacobs100 has that story for us today, with some amazing history. prospect.org/economy/2023-0…

The New Deal was a high-wage, low-price, full-employment agenda. Leon Keyserling, author of the Wagner Act & Truman economic adviser, believed his job was not “mere forecasting” but to determine what the “components & composition of the GNP ought to be.” prospect.org/economy/2023-0…

"Biden’s blue-collar blueprint is not only good politics, but good economics too." @MegJacobs100 details in @TheProspect how the president's rhetoric & policies suggest a pivot to a ""labor liberalism once at the center of the economics profession." prospect.org/economy/2023-0…

"The new movie 'Air,' about the creation of Air Jordans, offers up a new genre: the anti-biopic," writes @MegJacobs100 cnn.com/2023/04/11/opi…

Instead of grasping for breath, #michaeljordan soars through the ⁦@airmovie⁩ cnn.com/2023/04/11/opi…

"The formalism in economic modeling...serve as pseudo-scientific rationalizations for corporate power and gross inequality." @TheProspect's @rkuttnerwrites explains why fixing the economics profession & capitalism should go hand in hand. prospect.org/economy/2023-0…

💡 Don't miss this tomorrow - @Princeton's Paul Krugman and Meg Jacobs give Clare Hall's much-anticipated Tanner Lecture 2023 on #Inflation. Register your Zoom place here: clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/tanner2…

@JoeBiden “It’s time to stop war profiteering.” Read how Biden has been saying this his whole career @nytopinion nytimes.com/2022/11/05/opi…

“By the end of the 1970s, the price of a gallon of gasoline had become one of the most explosive issues in American political life,” writes @MegJacobs100. “It still is.” nyti.ms/3G4hQhd

"As we approach the midterms, more and more candidates, especially in the GOP, are running on anti-inflation platforms. It's nothing new," writes @MegJacobs100 cnn.com/2022/10/30/opi…

Lots of good ideas @EmilyStewartM What aren’t we doing to fix inflation? vox.com/the-goods/2022… via @voxdotcom

Biden’s bill was 43 years in the making. time.com/6206334/joe-bi…

“No one can ever embargo the sun” time.com/6206334/joe-bi…

Congress can stabilize prices and reduce inflationary pressures through selective price caps combined with investments to increase the resilience of our economy, @MegJacobs100 and @IsabellaMWeber write in @madebyhistory. wapo.st/3wgqVxJ