Economics and Elections
What did economics have to do with the 2016 election?
What did economics have to do with the 2016 election?
The outcome of the 2016 election took nearly everybody except the most ardent Trump supporters and the most pessimistic Clinton supporters by surprise. In this presentation I will provide evidence of the fact that economics, more than most other factors, played the largest role in determining the outcome. It was not emails, it was not racism or sexism, per se, but economic policy as it has been pursued since the late 1970s. These policies affect labor's power, the cost of doing business in the United States, and the distribution and taxation of income.