Dylan Gottlieb on Yuppies, Financialization, and the New Inequality

Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast by Jessica Levy

Jun 2, 202645:09Society & Culture

The year was 1984, "The Year of the Yuppie," according to Newsweek magazine. Yuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a very real demographic as revealed in this month's episode featuring our...

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