Teaching Fellows

Nic Johnson is a postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Law, Letters, Society program. His research sits at the intersection of political economy and intellectual history. His dissertation book project, titled American Keynesianism, recounts the story of how mainstream economics was invented at postwar MIT, funded by the military industrial complex, and how changing patronage networks at MIT after the Vietnam War led, not to the death of Keynesianism, but its rebirth from within the IMF-Fed-Wall Street complex. His second book project is a longue durée history of sovereign debt, the fiscal military state, and monetary policy. His teaching interests include twentieth century American history, modern and early modern economic history, and the history of political philosophy and political economy.