Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

Jamie Merchant is a writer based in Chicago. He is the author of Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline.

Senator Todd Young (R-ID) references a chart on rising costs during a press conference on inflation, at the Russell Senate Office Building, 2022.

Are Economists Going the Way of the Dinosaur? Are Economists Going the Way of the Dinosaur?

In Eswar S. Prasad’s The Doom Loop, he attempts to defend a profession that failed to foresee the crisis of the post-liberal world.

May 22, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Jamie Merchant

Protest

Amazon’s Defeat Is Local and Global Amazon’s Defeat Is Local and Global

By tying their fight against Amazon to bigger structural problems, activists in Queens showed us a way forward for transnational anti-corporate politics.

Feb 17, 2019 / Jamie Merchant

Occupy Oakland

Economic Nationalism Is Suicide Economic Nationalism Is Suicide

Our inability to think globally pushes us further into a world of growing jingoism and martial confrontation.

Feb 5, 2019 / Jamie Merchant

x