Reviving Growth Keynesianism

Jonathan Levy on *Ages of American Capitalism*

• Robert Manduca and Nic Johnson

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This week we talked to Jon Levy, Professor of US History at the University of Chicago, about his forthcoming book *Ages of American Capitalism.* We asked him what "capitalism" even is, what makes one age different from another, and what Keynes can tell us about its past and possible futures.

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Pre-order the book from Penguin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227741/ages-of-american-capitalism-by-jonathan-levy/

or on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ages-American-Capitalism-History-United/dp/0812995015

Read about Jon's definition of "capital as process" here: https://www.academia.edu/34785107/Capital_as_Process_and_the_History_of_Capitalism

and check out his paper "Primal Capital" on Freudo-Keynesianism (which, as it turns out, is just Keynesianism): https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705295