Hello World!
I’m Mike Konczal. I’ve spent my career at the intersection of economic theory, data science, and high-level policymaking.
Most recently, I served as Special Assistant to the President and Chief Economist of the National Economic Council. Today, I’m the Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project.
Before that, I was an early hire at the Roosevelt Institute’s think tank and worked as a financial engineer. Along the way, I’ve been a columnist for The Nation, Vox, and The Washington Post. I’m the author of Freedom from the Market (2021), and a co-author of Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy (2015) with Joseph Stiglitz.
I’m also a Chicago Guy, a dad, and a dedicated #RStats user.
Why Subscribe?
This Substack is where I’ll be workshopping arguments backed by data, policy details, and economic reasoning. I’ll write about:
The policy and politics shaping this chaotic period.
Macroeconomics: growth, inflation, labor markets, market power, and full employment. The good stuff.
Big ideas that connect day-to-day debates to questions of affordability, power, and economic security.
My passion, graphic design. There will be lots of charts.
A lot of the work I do is translating arguments and evidence between audiences. I’ll be practicing that here, trying to make difficult things accessible and seeing what works and what doesn’t.
And we’ll try to have some fun along the way. I hope you’ll subscribe.
