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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The Sneaky Way Austerity Got Sold to the Public Like Snake Oil

Article | Dec 22, 2015

A budget approach cloaked in the aura of science and technical jargon became a tool of manipulation.

How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide

Article | Dec 10, 2015

Can education stop the country’s backward slide?

Will Spain Reject Austerity?

Article | Nov 20, 2015

Spain’s future path for economic policy will soon be decided.

What Can We Really Know About the Future of Stock Prices?

Article | Nov 17, 2015

A gap between theory and reality has haunted economists.

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