The rise of populist actors is increasingly associated with economic issues such as welfare,
redistribution and international trade. However, the link between populism and the economy
remains unclear. This chapter argues the importance of a specific concept of economic
populism whereby economic issues may be partially embedded into a populist frame. This frame
may be expressed differently across contexts and it may also cross-cut traditional economic
cleavages. Moreover, economic populism may be found among ordinary citizens in the form of
a specific set of attitudes. Based on a recent comparative cross-sectional survey of citizens in
France, Switzerland and the United States, we show that economic populism forms a common
attitudinal dimension across these three countries, which is however differently distributed
across the left-right axis and which manifests differently in relation to other important
economic correlates of populism such as economic redistribution, welfare chauvinism and
attitudes towards globalization, according to context.