We Can Take Monetary Policy Out of the Hands of Technocrats

The US economic elite is worried about populism — again. After an initial wave of hand-wringing followed the ascent of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in national politics, recent inflation has rekindled fears of the uninformed masses intruding into economists’ rarefied technocratic domain. Especially troubling to economists has been the idea that addressing inflation requires […]

This post was originally published on Jacobin.