Jacob Swanson

Jacob Swanson received his PhD in Government from Cornell University. A political theorist, his research focuses on political economy, democracy, and social theory.  At the Center for Political Economy (Money and Finance Lab), he will primarily be working on completing his book, Made By Money: Politics, Economics, and the Self in Capitalist Modernity, which explores how money shapes the modern economic self, markets, and democratic life. His previous work has appeared in Political Theory, Daedalus, Perspectives on Politics, and the UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review.