Gary Gerstle

Gary Gerstle FBA (born 1954) is an American historian. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.

Quotes

• American labor was strongest when the threat of communism was greatest. The apogee of America's welfare state, with all its limitations, was coterminous with the height of the Cold War. The dismantling of the welfare state and the labor movement, meanwhile, marched in tandem with communism's collapse.
  • The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (2022), p. 12

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Gary Gerstle on Wikipedia