The Rise of Trumpism

John Komlos
Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center, 2019
Niveau: débutant
Perspectives: Économie évolutionniste, Économie institutionnelle, Autre
Sujet: Crises, Mondialisation & relations économiques internationales, Institutions, gouvernements & politiques, Macroéconomie, Microéconomie & marchés, Réflexion sur l'économie, Mouvements sociaux & transformation
Format: Lecture / Presentation
Durée: 55:30
Lien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYAXplyZTc&feature=youtu.be

Donald Trump won in 2016 largely because enough voters in three states, all in the Rustbelt, which had voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, switched their electoral votes from Democratic to Republican. Economic dislocations played a crucial role in these states to induce them to vote for an anti-establishment candidate. The sources of the dislocation were the development of a dual economy characterized at one end by low and stagnating wages, increasing debt, downward social mobility, declining relative incomes, and the hopelessness accompanying them while at the other end of the income distribution the economy was booming.

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Ce projet est le fruit du travail des membres du réseau international pour le pluralisme en économie, dans la sphère germanophone (Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik e.V.) et dans la sphère francophone (Rethinking Economics Switzerland / Rethinking Economics Belgium / PEPS-Économie France). Nous sommes fortement attachés à notre indépendance et à notre diversité et vos dons permettent de le rester ! 

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