Clara Mattei is Professor of Economics at The University of Tulsa and Founding President of FREE: Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, where she hosts the weekly FREE podcast. Previously, she was Associate Professor at The New School for Social Research and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her research contributes to the analysis and history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. Her award-winning book Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity (2022) has been translated into over a dozen languages.