Nick Foster on "Green Corn Gleaming" or: why Reagan did industrial policy in agriculture
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Nick Foster is a graduate student in history at the University of Chicago, writing a dissertation on the Reagan Revolution and the cultural history of finance capitalism. We discuss why Reagan embraced the biggest farm bill in US history, and speculate...
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