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Malcolm Harris
Finance & Economics
Malcolm Harris is an American journalist, critic, and editor who writes about millennials, economic inequality, and contemporary political economy.
Biography
Malcolm Harris (born 1988) is an American journalist, critic, and editor based on the East Coast of the United States. He is an editor at The New Inquiry and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials (2017) and Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023).
Harris was involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. His 2017 book presents a data-driven critique of why millennials are economically worse off than previous generations, examining trends such as runaway student debt, the rise of internships, mass incarceration, and social media, and arguing that young people have been conditioned to treat their lives and efforts as forms of human capital.
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Books by Malcolm Harris
Kids These Days
Kids These Days (2017) is a data-driven investigation into why millennials are economically worse off, examining student debt, internships, mass incarceration, social media, and the conditioning of young people as human capital.