Noam Maggor

Historian of capitalism, @QMHistory, @BritishAcademy_ 2025-2026

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

How did industrial policy shape American capitalism in the nineteenth century (and beyond)?

My article on how the U.S. “escaped the periphery” is now out:
https://t.co/dBjetVYSET

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@matthewstoller @samhaselby If the point is that anti monopoly wasn't a fringe movement, I don't disagree.

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@matthewstoller @samhaselby Indeed, but the US also had anti monopoly politics, not just feelings.

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@samhaselby @matthewstoller Many many farmers.

[joseph francis @joefrancis505]

AJR showed that it is possible to win a Nobel Prize using Mickey Mouse Numbers. In my new blog post, I show how their results depend on choice made in data construction, in both "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development" (2001) and "Reversal of Fortune" (2002). 1/9

[Erez Maggor @ErezMaggor]

דברים שאמרתי לרותי לוי ב @TheMarker לגבי הצעת רשות המיסים להחשיב סטארט־אפים שיוקמו על ידי בוגרי יחידה טכנולוגית בשנים שלאחר השחרור כחברה ישראלית לצורכי מס

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

🎓 If Trump serves out his second term, he will have dominated American politics for twelve years — longer than any president since FDR. And yet scholars have struggled to make sense of Trumpism on its own terms. A mini-conference at Cambridge, 1–2 June, organised by @glgerstle and me, engages with it from a broad historical and interdisciplinary perspective.

📌 Panel I (1 June, 4–5:30pm) — Populist Furies, Right & Left, 2010–2020
Chair: Mia Bay | Presenter: @glgerstle | Commentator: Alice Figes

📌 Panel II (2 June, 10am–noon) — The Origins of Trumpism: The Neoliberal Crisis of the 1990s
Chair: Caroline Johnston | Presenter: @lionel_trolling | Commentator: @DEHEdgerton

📌 Panel III (2 June, 1:30–3:30pm) — Does Trumpism Have a Coherent Political Economy? A Roundtable
Chair: @NMaggor | Panelists: @HelenHet20, @haugejostein, @DrLeeJones

#Trumpism #AmericanHistory #USPolitics #PoliticalEconomy

🔗 Full programme: https://t.co/Var707qz6n

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@RonenMandelkern @RadmanMoshe 🔥🔥🔥

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

🎓 If Trump serves out his second term, he will have dominated American politics for twelve years — longer than any president since FDR. And yet scholars have struggled to make sense of Trumpism on its own terms. A mini-conference at Cambridge, 1–2 June, organised by @glgerstle and me, engages with it from a broad historical and interdisciplinary perspective.

📌 Panel I (1 June, 4–5:30pm) — Populist Furies, Right & Left, 2010–2020
Chair: Mia Bay | Presenter: @glgerstle | Commentator: Alice Figes

📌 Panel II (2 June, 10am–noon) — The Origins of Trumpism: The Neoliberal Crisis of the 1990s
Chair: Caroline Johnston | Presenter: @lionel_trolling | Commentator: @DEHEdgerton

📌 Panel III (2 June, 1:30–3:30pm) — Does Trumpism Have a Coherent Political Economy? A Roundtable
Chair: @NMaggor | Panelists: @HelenHet20, @haugejostein, @DrLeeJones

#Trumpism #AmericanHistory #USPolitics #PoliticalEconomy

🔗 Full programme: https://t.co/Var707qz6n

[Ganesh Sitaraman @GaneshSitaraman]

For Spirit’s employees, customers & for the communities in which it operates, the airline’s failure is a tragedy. But there are a lot of misconceptions about going around, including blaming antitrust enforcement, and looking at Spirit in isolation.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

With respect to Jesús, economist Guilherme Martin Kleins, drawing on Alice Amsden's work and attempts by South American economists to solve exactly this problem- why did East Asia rise while South America fell- provides an answer: https://t.co/rYzppkfQAL

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n Come on Charles, you're not seriously suggesting the job market was meritocratic and plentiful right before you came along or that non tt jobs are somehow inferior.

[Teddy Paikin @teddy_paikin]

Excited to share our new article in HM with Sam Salour on Brenner/Wood (PM) and the politics of imperialism and eurocentrism!

Hopefully this will allow for a better debate than that provoked by Chibber’s recent Jacobin article…

https://t.co/vYJNHz9P3Q

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@Eli_B_Cook כל הכבוד

[Sebastian Mazzuca @SLMazzuca]

Just out:
https://t.co/KihOyIm315

[LPE Blog @LPEblog]

Today, Noam Maggor concludes our symposium on @JasonBJackson's *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry.*

Although rooted in Indian history, he argues, the book’s thoroughly global-comparative mode of analysis allows it to resonate far beyond South Asia.

[James Brandt @j_e_brandt]

"Morality tales about virtuous entrepreneurs or predatory speculators are less descriptions of economic reality than prescriptive efforts to shape it. To label some capitalists as productive and others extractive is way of trying to direct behavior toward socially desired ends."

[LPE Blog @LPEblog]

Today, @JasonBJackson kicks off a symposium on his new book, *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India.*

Economic policymaking, he argues, is best seen as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@nikhil_palsingh @nytopinion The Fed is a federal corporation and a creature of Congress – not an administrative agency under the control of the Executive. Caitlin Tully's piece offers a historically informed way out of the current stalemate over central bank “independence":
https://t.co/zrocMVQ8BT

[Noam Maggor @NMaggor]

@nikhil_palsingh @nytopinion The Fed is a federal corporation and a creature of Congress – not an administrative agency under the control of the Executive. Caitlin Tully's piece offers a historically informed way out of the current stalemate over central bank “independence":
https://t.co/zrocMVQ8BT

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Historian Sean Irving on the lost ideals of republicanism, republican political thought terrified monarchies, played a major role in ending slavery, and was built around the ideal that citizens must exercise economic as well as political power https://t.co/kp3YaiBac5