@_jonlevy

Historian at Sciences Po. Author of The Real Economy (Princeton) and Ages of American Capitalism (Random House).

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Joined January 2017
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Chiara Cordelli@chiaracordelliAug 9
Three years in the making, and it’s finally out! plato.stanford.edu/entries/c…
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Chiara Cordelli@chiaracordelliJun 20
Looking forward to hosting this conference on State and Capital at Sciences Po with @DanielaGabor @picharbonnier @stefeich @katforrester @alybatt @martin_oneill @SamuelHayat and other excellent speakers. RSVP here sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/ev…
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Chiara Cordelli@chiaracordelliApr 3
Tragedy, not faith in linear progress, has become the source of hope for moral and political progress. The rebirth of democracy and the salvation of the planet now depends on it. Project Syndicate @ProSyn prosyn.org/4pKsVzv

Tragedy Is Reborn as Hope

Chiara Cordelli shows how right-wing populism and war in the Middle East are inspiring renewed democratic and green activism.

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I wrote this essay that says neoliberalism is as much liberalism as it is neo. For an issue on capital/state relations in US history edited by the historian Matteo Battistini at the excellent journal Scienza & Politica. scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/ar…
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I am slowly, all too slowly, working on a history of the 21st century US. Thanks to PS for giving me space to work some thought out. @ProSyn prosyn.org/fD5Kgpb

The Future of American Hegemony

Jonathan Levy explains why episodes of social breakdown can preserve and even reinforce the existing order.

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Chiara Cordelli@chiaracordelliFeb 11
I wrote a short piece on the role of hypocrisy and morality in American Politics. La rivoluzione di Trump? Il suo interesse personale @DomaniGiornale editorialedomani.it/idee/com…

La rivoluzione di Trump? Il suo interesse personale

La presidenza Trump è una sorta di “ri-feudalizzazione” della politica: il potere dello Stato viene usato come estensione degli interessi personali del leader. La questione non è dunque se l’ipocri...

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Chiara Cordelli@chiaracordelliFeb 10
Very happy to have just signed a contract for my new book, Ruled by None: A Political Theory of Capitalism, with @PrincetonUPress. Here’s a link to the book synopsis chiaracordelli.com/new-page-…
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Did you read Ages of American Capitalism and think "this book is too short"? Well, here is a stab at a chapter 23, carrying the story to the present (or fall 2025 anyway). Thanks to my new Sciences Po colleague Jeanne Lazarus for inviting and editing. econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/…
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Inflationary Tales

Jonathan Levy explains how economic shocks exposed flaws in monetarist orthodoxy and created room for intellectual innovation.

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Join us for the NOMOS conference on Capitalism and Socialism. Agenda, registration, and Zoom link here political-theory.org/2025-Co… @NomosASPLP
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Discussing my “new” book youtube.com/watch?v=IRct-yiU…

Extended interview: Historian Jonathan Levy on his outlook of the...

Author and historian Jonathan Levy joins "The Takeout with Major Ga...

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The Real Economy: phenomenalworld.org/analysis…

The Real Economy - Phenomenal World

No discipline in the humanities or social sciences today has a convincing theory of the economy. Long preoccupied with honing methods, the core of the discipline of economics has abandoned investig...

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When exactly did it all go wrong? Many times, including here. project-syndicate.org/onpoin…

The Opacity of Hope

Jonathan Levy reflects on how the politics promoted by America’s first Black president gave rise to its first felonious one.

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Thank you Daniel Judt and JHI blog for engagement with The Real Economy jhiblog.org/2025/02/24/stora…

Storage, Investment, and Desire: An Interview with Jonathan Levy

by Daniel Judt...

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Today is publication day for my book The Real Economy @PrincetonUPress press.princeton.edu/books/ha…

The Real Economy

A provocative new theory of “the economy,” its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics

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Excited to share my new article on capitalism, republicanism, social alienation and the case for planning, published OA at @apsrjournal What Is the Wrong of Capitalism? | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4jYMfyM
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Max Krahé@maxkrahe15 Nov 2021
My article on the political economy of deindustrialisation is out in CHS. Core claim: a Cold War comparison can teach us what features of democratic capitalism enabled this contentious process to go ahead. Gist in a 🧵: (1/n) journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ch… (the whole issue is great!)
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Glad to see this online! The Ethics of Global Capital Mobility cup.org/3At0rci
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A turning point in the history of capitalism? In a new episode of Capitalisn't, @zingales & @bethanymac12 talk to @_jonlevy about his book Ages of American Capitalism. Listen to the episode here capitalisnt.com/episodes/a-t… And read an excerpt from the book: promarket.org/2021/05/30/cor…

Capitalisn't

Histories are often relegated to the sidelines of economic study. But what do we lose in our theories when we only focus on the math and models? In his new book, “Ages of American Capitalism”,...

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