Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein, the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal, is working on a book about New York City’s financial crisis in the 1970s.

Articles

The Legacy of the 1970s Fiscal Crisis (The Gilded City, Economic Development, Society)

Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Subterranean Blues: On ExxonMobil (Environmental Issues, Corporations, Non-fiction, Books and the Arts)

Moral indignation is no longer enough to combat the power of Big Oil.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Countervailing Powers: On John Kenneth Galbraith (Non-fiction, Books and the Arts)

John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics as much as a practitioner of it.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Right On, 'Right On'!

Guatemala City

Kim Phillips-Fein and Our Readers

Right On (Conservatives and the American Right, Politics)

Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?

Kim Phillips-Fein

Living for the City: Robert Clifton Weaver's Liberalism (Urban Issues, History, Politics)

A biography of Robert Clifton Weaver traces the life and times of an often misunderstood urban reformer.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Hard Times (History)

Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Deal Breakers (Economic Policy, Conservatives and the American Right, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, The Left, Politics)

Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Letters

PHOTO NATION DEBUT

Harpswell, Me.

Kim Phillips-Fein and Our Readers

Labor Pains (Labor, History)

Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.

Kim Phillips-Fein