Clara Mattei

Clara E. Mattei is Professor of Economics and Director of the CHE, Center for Heterodox Economics, of The University of Tulsa Oklahoma that will be inaugurated in February 2025. She previously taught at the The New School for Social Research Economics Department and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. Her research contributes to the history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. She recently published her first book, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press 2022). The book was praised in the Financial Times as one of the ten best economics books of 2022, is now being translated in over 10 languages, and has won the 2023 Herbert Adams Baxter Prize of the American Historical Association. In November 2023, Mattei published her first book written directly in Italian, L'economia è politica: Tutto quello che non vediamo dell'economia e che nessuno racconta (Fuori Scena publisher 2023). The book is going to be released soon in English with Simon Schuster and Alla Lane (Penguin). Her current book project critically reassesses the Golden Age of Capitalism (1945-1975) and its Keynesianism through the lens of austerity capitalism. Her writings have appeared in The Guardian, Jacobin, The Nation, and Il Fatto Quotidiano - an Italian national newspaper that she contributes to regularly. She also writes a monthly column for the Swedish national paper, Dagens Etc.