Tom Streithorst has been a union member, an entrepreneur, a war cameraman, a commercials director, a journalist. These days, he mostly does voiceovers and thinks about economic history. An American in London, he’s been writing for magazines on both sides of the pond since 2008. He is currently working on a book on how the incredible productive power of capitalism and technology have the potential to bring us all prosperity and happiness but so far, we keep screwing it up. He also writes a regular column about economics at pieria.co.uk.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Jane Jacobs: The Greatest Thinker of the 20th Century
One hundred things to know or wonder about Jane Jacobs on her centennial...
Donald Trump, The Coen Brothers, and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Behind the angry talk of Trump supporters is the recognition that the world they were promised, the world of "Hail, Caesar!," is gone....
Why Conservatives Hate Fiscal Policy
It is time for policy makers to embrace stimulative fiscal policy....
33 Words to Explain Syria
A glossary to explain Syria....
A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee
The Basic Income Guarantee has an ancient pedigree, and it gives every citizen enough money to survive....
A New Golden Age Part II: The Path to Prosperity
Who is better off: you or your parents when they were your age?...
A New Golden Age Part I: Why Your Grandparents Lived Larger than You Do
Who is better off: you or your parents when they were your age?...
It’s Demand, Stupid: The Cause and Cure of Our Economic Travails
Every month Americans consume between $30 and $40 billion worth of manufactured goods from China....
Why Your Rent Is So High and Your Pay Is So Low
Tom Streithorst explains why stagnant wages and higher stock prices are two sides of the same coin....
The Economics of Mad Max and Star Trek
Our scientific prowess and our destruction of the planet: which will be the first home to roost?...
Secular Stagnation, Then and Now
Larry Summers’s “secular stagnation” proposal has deep roots in Alvin Hansen economics....
Schumpeter and Me
Tom Streithorst unravels the myths of modern economics....
The Road to Recovery
On the state of the economy and how to fix it...
A Brief Glossary of Financial Cataclysm
The Big Crash 101: how to understand the evaporation of trillions of dollars....
Afghanistan, 2001
Afghanistan three weeks after 9/11....
Post-Scarcity Economics
Why are some pundits and economists still enamored of austerity?...
