In the last several years, investing in cryptocurrency has become popular. Despite the prominence of cryptocurrency in American society and government, politicians and social scientists know almost nothing about the politics of cryptocurrency in the American public. This is remarkable because a central idea of Bitcoin, the world's first and most valuable cryptocurrency, is limiting […]

If you look up “what causes recessions” on Google, you get a very wide variety of very wrong answers. The situation is only marginally better in the economics discipline, with explanations ranging from “money illusion” (workers get confused about the purchasing power of their wage and subsequently quit their jobs) to random shocks (stuff happens). […]