Talk: The Class Politics of Inflation and Postwar Wage and Price Controls

Andrew Elrod is a PhD candidate in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. He is a historian of American capitalism and economic thought who has published in the New Labor Forum, Jacobin, and Dissent. His talk will examine the responses of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations to the problems of inflation and price controls in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy