Kathy Thelen is the Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT. Among her many publications, the former president of the American Political Science Association is the author of Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy; "Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes," with Brian Highsmith and Maya Sen; and co-editor of The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power, with Jacob S. Hacker, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and Paul Pierson.