About Timothy Shenk

Timothy Shenk is a fellow at New America and editor at Dissent. His first book, Maurice Dobb: Political Economist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), examines the life of the British economist, historian, and communist Maurice Dobb. He is currently at work on two books. Inventing the American Economy, an intellectual biography of the American economy, is under contract with Princeton University Press. Democracy’s Revenge: The People, The Powerful, and the American Political Tradition, an intellectual history of the American political elite from the writing of the Constitution down to the present, is under contract with Farrar, Straus & Giroux.