Kate McNamara

@ProfKMcNamara

Georgetown. Markets, politics & culture; industrial policy; EU stuff. Now only over at katemcnamara.bsky.social because I’m not a fan of Nazis.

Washington, DC kathleenrmcnamara.wordpress.com Joined May 2014

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Kate McNamara @ProfKMcNamara Jul 6, 2023

Industrial policy & geopolitics are on the rise, w/big economic impacts--but the EU's surprising turn towards major market interventions may transform Europe itself. My new @jepp_journal piece explores the potential consequences & challenges facing the EU tandfonline.com/eprint/GIXPKZD…

www.tandfonline.com Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn Markets require rules, made and enforced by governments, and modern market-making has therefore unfolded as an intrinsic part of state-building. While the European Union is not a state, it has not ...

Kate McNamara @ProfKMcNamara Dec 4, 2024

Congrats to @laaker_dillon, our former @georgetownsfs Global Political Economy Project predoctoral fellow whose work on the politics of supply chains is amazing!

Dillon Laaker @laaker_dillon Dec 3, 2024

It has been a long journey. I’m thrilled to announce that I have accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at @cornellgov! So many people from Nebraska, Truman, Forensics, Wisconsin, Georgetown, and LSE have helped me reach this point, and I’m extraordinarily grateful.
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Kate McNamara @ProfKMcNamara Nov 21, 2024

Those pesky pesky details about how Biden was the best President for the working class in decades.

. Verified account @GregTSargent Nov 21, 2024

A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.

It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/

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Kate McNamara @ProfKMcNamara Nov 20, 2024

Feeding at the trough, here we go. ft.com/content/56adea… via @ft

www.ft.com Corporate insiders cash in on post-election US stock market surge Insider sales reach all-time high as executives from Goldman Sachs to Tesla lock in equity gains

Kate McNamara @ProfKMcNamara Nov 16, 2024

Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates “The Case for Reparations” for my @georgetownsfs undergrad proseminar “Money & Markets” & filled with awe that this is what I get paid to do. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

www.theatlantic.com The Case for Reparations Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America...