Caitlin Zaloom

Caitlin Zaloom is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and a Founding Editor of Public Books. Her most recent book is Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost. (February 2025)

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Too Close for Comfort

Why are economists in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state?

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

by Clara E. Mattei

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy

by Elizabeth Popp Berman

Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

by Angus Deaton

February 13, 2025 issue

The Broken Promise of Retirement

If the US does nothing to fix its retirement system, 2.6 million formerly middle-class workers will be plunged into poverty by 2022.

Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back

by Nathan Bomey

Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans

by Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James, with a foreword by Timothy Geithner

American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation

by Sarah L. Quinn

Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality

by Katherine S. Newman

July 1, 2021 issue

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