Jessica Eastland-Underwood

‘The economy’, the ideational, whiteness and re-election of Donald Trump

As many consider the economic factors that contributed to the Trump presidency, political economy scholars should pay as much attention to the ideational as the material. While inflation provides a parsimonious explanation for the 2024 US presidential election, everyday understandings of ‘the economy’ suggest that race was as salient a factor in the final outcome.

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