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October 08, 2025 | The Sling

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Op-Ed Anti-MonopolyClimate and EnvironmentEconomic MediaEconomic Policy

The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective

Growth is responsible for the widely shared prosperity ushered in across much of the world in the twentieth century, leading to declines in infant mortality, longer life expectancy, and some of the best standards of living in human history. But growth has also driven mass deforestation, soaring income inequality, and the erosion of democracy as power became increasingly concentrated. When a handful of companies control local television stations, it’s easier for a president with authoritarian tendencies to punish his perceived enemies. Acknowledging that duality and seeking balance is different than monomaniacally pursuing economic growth or degrowth.

August 07, 2025

Henry Burke

Blog Post Anti-MonopolyCorporate CrackdownMatt YglesiasRevolving DoorTech

Uber Wrong

In his latest broadside against the left, Mattew Yglesias took aim at longtime critics of Uber’s blatant lawbreaking. In Yglesias’s view, these critics who range from anti-monopoly voices like Lina Khan to anti-corruption experts like our own Jeff Hauser and academics focused on financial regulation like Professor Hillary Allen, constitute a coterie of economics-hating zealots eager to make people’s lives worse. 

June 11, 2025 | Citations Needed

Kenny Stancil Henry Burke

Interview AbundanceAnti-MonopolyArtificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentEconomic MediaEconomic PolicyGovernment CapacityMatt Yglesias

PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke Discuss "Abundance" as Counter to Left Populism on Citations Needed

Revolving Door Project senior researchers Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke joined Citations Needed to talk about the so-called Abundance agenda, including how it’s being promoted as an alternative to a downwardly redistributive economic populism.