We study whether anger fuels the rise of populism. Anger as an emotion tends to act as a call to action against … a more complex sense of malaise and gloom, rather than anger per se, drives the rise in populism …

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 …. Second, there is no necessary relationship between populism and anti-globalization sentiment. Third, economists have …