Critical Social Theory; Political Economy; Social Justice; Inequality My research investigates the historical and social formation of modern economic government. In the early 20th century, the economy emerged as a new type of object of governmental practices, ones which required new technical devices, and new strategies of government. My work looks at the contingencies and accidents of the emergence of forms of macroeconomic management we now take for granted. By returning to old social and economic problems, it is possible to see how the devices we take for granted today emerged in contexts that may seem quite strange, and which invite us to consider new ways of configuring macroeconomic techniques of government. Other research interests include the growing social inequalities resulting from the macroeconomic consensus which has emerged from the post-2008 economic crisis. Middle and working classes, relatively privileged by historical standards in Canada and the United States, are being classed down in a generational transition that will fundamentally transform social class relations in North America
