Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean’s research has been featured in a blog post by Richard Murphy on the Finding the Future Blog.
He writes, “Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is one of the most powerful books of our time. It is not a conspiracy theory but a history of how the American right turned James Buchanan’s public choice theory into a political strategy for entrenching the power of the wealthy minority. Where Keynes sought to save capitalism from itself, Buchanan and his patrons sought to save capitalism from democracy.
Read more here: Economic questions: The Nancy MacLean question