On Economists, the Protective State, and “Not Using the Power of the Crown”
Scholar in Residence Lecture 1 | Basak Kus, Wesleyan University
In this lecture, Basak Kus discusses which ideas, precisely, shaped the US government’s approach to risk regulation during the last quarter of the twentieth century as financialization was underway, and how they gained political traction under successive administrations beginning in the 1970s, ultimately casting the state in economistic terms.