David Stein, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, is the author of Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929-1986. (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming) Among his recent essays are “The Full Employment Mandate of the Federal Reserve: Its Origins and Importance,” with Dean Baker and Sarah Rawlins, The Center for Popular Democracy (2017); and “’This Nation Has Never Honestly Dealt with the Question of a Peacetime Economy’: Coretta Scott King and the Struggle for a Nonviolent Economy in the 1970s,” Souls (2016). Stein took his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California.