De Bromhead, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism …. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is 'an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it … poses a threat to democracy'. We make three historical arguments. First, late 19th century US Populists were not populist …