Reactionary Politics as a Cause of Economic Decline

The hypothesis that economic hardship is fuel for the fire of reactionary cultural politics is widely aired on both sides of the Atlantic these days. By contrast, little attention is paid to the alternate causal reading — that reactionary cultural politics is a cause of economic decline. Speaker: Matthew Yglesias co-founded Vox.com with Ezra Klein and Melissa Bell back in the spring of 2014. He's currently a senior correspondent focused on politics and economic policy, and co-hosts The Weeds podcast twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. Location: Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Morse Building, Room B104, 426 Van Buren Street, Monterey, CA 93940. Free, Open to the Public. No registration requested. Website for more info: go.miis.edu/sustainability. For Questions, contact Rachel Christopherson at the Center for the Blue Economy at [email protected] or (831) 647-4183.