Lynn Parramore

Lynn Parramore is a cultural historian whose work illuminates the deep interconnections among history, economics, culture, and psychology, revealing how collective narratives and moral assumptions shape economic life and power.

Lynn Parramore is a cultural historian whose work illuminates the deep interconnections among history, economics, culture, and psychology, revealing how collective narratives and moral assumptions shape economic life and power. She earned her Ph.D. from New York University and is the author of Reading the Sphinx and the editor of How the Occupy Movement Is Changing America. A Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former Media Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, she is a frequent contributor and commentator across major news and media outlets, bringing intellectual range and cultural insight to contemporary debates. She has also founded and co-founded several digital media platforms focused on politics, culture, and economic justice.

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Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”

Article | Apr 6, 2020

Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids

Top Economist: Instead of Basic Income, Let’s Keep People Working Productively During the Crisis

Article | Mar 25, 2020

William Lazonick emphasizes that keeping workers productively employed is key to economic recovery from Covid-19 as well as a healthy economic future

MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People “Going to Get Squashed”

Article | Mar 19, 2020

The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.

Let’s Get Real. Economists Have a Sex Problem

Article | Mar 6, 2020

Economist and feminist Victoria Bateman reveals some naked truths about the failings of economics.

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