Rachel Dec writer and economist in san francisco
currently: senior analyst, sustainability economics @ AECOM		[email protected] twitter substack with critical essays on economics, technology, and culture

Selected Writing

• Essay on structural affordability issues and the causes of low economic sentiment for Substack. Other topics include: how tech ruined the online job market, the rise of "self-optimization" as a profitable concept, and a reflection on personal consumption indexes amid post-pandemic inflation.
• Review of Kyla Scanlon's book "In this Economy?" for Los Angeles Review of Books
• Ballot question guide on Massachusetts right-to-repair issues, for Center for State Policy Analysis (served as Lead Researcher)
• Op-ed on statewide campaign finance reform, for CommonWealth Magazine (more op-eds found on Muckrack)
• Reflections on pandemic-era liberal alarmism, for Quarantined Chicago Policy Grads
• Academic paper on the efficacy of labor union political spending (independent study in grad school)

Interests

Film photography