https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/categories/political-economy/Recent content in Political Economy on MarginaliaHugoen-usFri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/the-u-s-post-world-war-ii-boom-1945-1975/Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/the-u-s-post-world-war-ii-boom-1945-1975/The postwar boom was a real and unusually broad high-growth regime, but not the product of one policy or one geopolitical accident. Its strongest explanation is an alignment of rapid productivity growth, rising incomes, transformed household finance, education, bargaining institutions, infrastructure, and international conditions that began to come apart before and during the 1970s.