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Daniel Wortel-London
@dlondonwortel
Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bard. Author of "The Menace of Prosperity: NYC and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981" https://t.co/kPrq1m7JPQ
Mar 26, 2024 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
In 1942, the bond-rating firm J. Austin White and Co. released a report analyzing municipal bonds and finances.

It's the most racist primary-source document I've ever come across. (1/7)

babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.…
Image The document starts off by saying that “it is necessary, in order properly to appraise the credit of a city, to subject it to the same tests which one would subject the individual citizens should they be asking to borrow money”

- fiscally problematic, but OK. But then... (2/7) Image
Apr 20, 2022 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
In 1975 the New York Times asked Milton Friedman, Jane Jacobs, Buckminster Fuller, Lewis Mumford, Nathan Glazer, John Kenneth Galbraith, and others for their opinions on how New York City could pull itself out of its fiscal crises.

Here's a thread showing their answers. Image Galbraith, Mumford, Glazer, and Jacobs ImageImageImageImage
Apr 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
GLORIOUS Trade-Union banners from the U.K. It doesn't get better than this. ImageImage Some more glorious Trade-Union banners ImageImageImageImage
Nov 1, 2021 • 14 tweets • 10 min read
Dr. William Henry Dean Jr., (1910-1952) was a pioneering Black economist and a pathbreaking economic geographer. This is a short thread about his tragically short life and influential - though largely unknown - body of work. (1/12) Image William H. Dean Jr. was born in Virginia in 1910, son of a prominent minister. He graduated Bowdoin College and later attended Harvard as a Rosenwald Fellow. He was awarded his Ph.D in economics from Harvard in 1938 on a relatively new subject: economic geography.
Oct 26, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Incredible images of "Open-air schools," designed in the early 1900s to bring students into greater contact with nature. (1/3) 2/3
Oct 28, 2020 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
There's a strain of liberalism and social democracy - communitarian, ethical, and optimistic - I was once attracted to.

I'm grappling with the omissions and weaknesses of this perspective while trying to hold on to its strengths. I'd be curious if this thread resonates. (1) The hall mark of this perspective is a kind of melioristic humanism: that people, while not omniscient and infallible, are nonetheless able to transform their context through gradual, democratically arrived-at reforms. (2)

Think Dewey, Judt, Kloppenberg, and Whitman.