Date | Outlet | Title | Type |
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September 14, 2023 | Planet Money | Wait, Did We Really Need To Raise Rates? | Podcast |
September 08, 2023 | Roosevelt Institute | Supply-Side Expansion Has Driven the Decline In Inflation | White Paper |
April 28, 2023 | The Nation | The Revolutionary Potential Of the Inflation Reduction Act | Article |
March 28, 2023 | Why Is This Happening? | Wth Happened At Silicon Valley Bank? | Podcast |
March 09, 2023 | House Subcommittee Testimony | Inflation In 2023: Causes, Progress, and Solutions | White Paper |
February 28, 2023 | Vox | How the Us Can Stick the Landing, Beat Inflation, and Avoid a Recession | Article |
Mike Konczal serves as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. Previously, he was the Director of Macroeconomic Analysis at the Roosevelt Institute. He authored Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand, and co-authored Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy with Joseph Stiglitz. Mike is a respected voice in U.S. economic discourse, frequently cited in media outlets, and has provided testimony before Congress. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and more, with appearances including CBS Sunday Morning, Planet Money, Washington Journal, and elsewhere.
He enjoys making informative graphics for the monthly economic data releases.
Here are some of the latest things I’ve been doing; you can find the full list of research, writings, and media around this website.
I’m often cited and quoted in coverage around the economy. Here’s some recent examples, with the full list here.
Date | Outlet | Title |
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March 22, 2024 | Bloomberg | Biden Taps New Advisers Focused On China, Inflation In 2024 |
March 22, 2024 | Politico | Bah-Bah-Bah-Bah-Bah-Basketball! |
January 10, 2024 | The Economist | Has Team Transitory Really Won America's Inflation Debate? |
December 01, 2023 | Washington Post | Biden Turns Up Pressure On Corporate 'Price Gouging' As 2024 Nears |
August 29, 2023 | New York Times | A Sad Story: What Can We Learn From the 1970s? |
August 03, 2023 | New York Times | Is Good News Finally Good News Again? |
Praise for Freedom From the Market:
“The Roosevelt Institute’s Konczal is one of the warriors in this fight, arguing fiercely for the need to set much narrower limits on what is left to markets than has been the case in recent decades. A powerful polemic.”
— Martin Wolf, Financial Times
“By identifying an alternative grammar, one that is grounded in the American past, Freedom from the Market provides a way out of the political cul-de-sac created by the failure of the market to deliver on its promises of ‘freedom.’”
— Molly Michelmore, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
“Freedom from the Market is an impressive book, easily one of the best I’ve read in the past several years. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
— Matt Mazewski, Commonweal
“terrific book.”
— Jamelle Bouie, New York Times
“Markets will set us free—except when they won’t, don’t, can’t. In this deeply researched yet eminently readable book, Mike Konczal tells the powerful forgotten story of how American democracy once tamed markets to advance our freedom, and shows us how it could do so once again.”
— Jacob Hacker, Yale University.
“Freedom from the Market has the potential to be a very important book, focusing attention on the contested, messy but crucially important intersection between social movements and the state. It provides a set of ideas that people on both sides of that divide can learn from, and a lively alternative foundation to the deracinated technocratic notions of politics, in which good policy would somehow, magically, be politically self supporting, that has prevailed up until quite recently. Strongly recommended.”
— Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber