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Nick Romeo
New Yorker Journalist
Author of The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy (PublicAffairs, 2024)
New Release
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy (Jan 16, 2024)
Based on years of reporting for the New Yorker magazine, The Alternative will be published simultaneously by Basic Books in the UK and PublicAffairs in the U.S. on January 16th, 2024. Preorder here.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
An Economics Lesson from Tolstoy The New Yorker
When Philosophers Become Therapists The New Yorker
Tracing the Rise and Fall of the American Dream The Washington Post
The island of Sifnos Fights Back against Overtourism The New Republic
The Hidden Archeologists of Athens The New Yorker
How to Spend Your City’s Money The New Yorker
Nicholas Humphrey’s Beautiful Theory of Mind The New Yorker
What Happens When Jobs Are Guaranteed? The New Yorker
The Purpose of Education The Atlantic
About Nick
Nick Romeo covers policy and ideas for the New Yorker and teaches in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, and many other venues. He holds a BA from Northwestern and an MA in Ancient Greek from the University of Colorado, Boulder.