Kim Phillips-Fein

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Phillips-Fein, Kim (2009). Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN   9780393059304.
  • Phillips-Fein, Kim; Julian E. Zelizer, eds. (2012). What's Good for Business: Business and American Politics since World War II. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199754014.
  • Phillips-Fein, Kim; Richard R. John, eds. (2016). Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   9780812248821.
  • Kim Phillips-Fein (2018). Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. MacMillan. ISBN   9781250160072.
  • Articles

    • Kim Phillips-Fein, "Conspicuous Destruction" (review of Brendan Ballou, Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America, PublicAffairs, 2023, 353 pp.; and Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs – and Wrecks – America, Simon and Schuster, 2023, 383 pp.), The New York Review of Books , vol. LXX, no. 16 (19 October 2023), pp. 33-35. "[P]rivate equity firms create nothing and provide no meaningful services – on the contrary, they actively undermine functional companies." (p. 34.) "Tax law plays a critical part in making [private equity] funds profitable. The 'carried interest' provision, for example, which allows most of the profits of private equity partners to be taxed at the lower capital gains rate rather than as earnings, is crucial to their self-enrichment." (p. 35.)

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    Kim Phillips-Fein Vargo
    BornAugust 1975 (age 48)
    Academic background
    EducationBA, history, 1997, University of Chicago
    PhD, American history 2005, Columbia University
    Thesis Top-down revolution: businessmen, intellectuals and politicians against the New Deal (2005)