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The Historical Perspective on the Donald Trump Puzzle: A Review of Barry Eichengreen's The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

By Konstantin Sonin

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

In The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era, Barry Eichengreen relies on historical and contemporary evidence to analyze major episodes of populism in the twenty-first century, the Trump election in the...

The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies

By Hanna Halaburda, Guillaume Haeringer, Joshua Gans, and Neil Gandal

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

Since its launch in 2009 much has been written about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains. While the discussions initially took place mostly on blogs and other popular media, we now are witnessing the emergence of a growing body of rigorous academ...

The Political Economy of Populism

By Sergei Guriev and Elias Papaioannou

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

We synthesize the literature on the recent rise of populism. First, we discuss definitions and present descriptive evidence on the recent increase in support for populists. Second, we cover the historical evolution of populist regimes since the late nin...