Nick Foster on "Green Corn Gleaming" or: why Reagan did industrial policy in agriculture

Reviving Growth Keynesianism by Robert Manduca and Nic Johnson

Apr 12, 202174:34Science & Medicine

Nick Foster is a graduate student in history at the University of Chicago, writing a dissertation on the Reagan Revolution and the cultural history of finance capitalism. We discuss why Reagan embraced the biggest farm b...

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