Author Archive: Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback

Albena Azmanova is an associate professor of politics at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies and author of Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia (2020).

Marshall Auerback is a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, a fellow of Economists for Peace and Security, and a regular contributor to Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

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Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’

By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback

Tags: Economy, Democratic Party, GOP/Right Wing, Identity Politics, Labor, News, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Presidential Elections, Time-Sensitive, Trump

Released for Syndication: 11/12/2020

Neither political party has truly addressed the issue of economic security, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.

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