Jamie Merchant
JAMIE MERCHANT lives in Chicago and is currently writing a critique of contemporary political economy for the Field Notes book series.
Fantasies of Secession: A Critique of Left Economic Nationalism
By Jamie MerchantOver the past few years, financial power has become a political black hole, collapsing ideological space into itself. Common ideas on the left, right, and center trace confused and overlapping trajectories as they spiral towards it.
Dreams of National Capital: Market Socialism, Past and Present
By Jamie MerchantThe apparition of a general trade war stalks the global economic order. In the United States, it recently manifested itself in the debate over the issue of sanctions leveled against Chinese companies. Bernie Sanders, the unofficial standard bearer of neo-social democracy in the U.S., excoriated the Trump administration for walking back on sanctions against the telecommunications firm ZTE.
The Money Theory of the State
By Jamie MerchantKafka’s unfinished final novel, The Castle, can be read as a parable about the misrecognition of power.
