neoliberalism

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/25/2022
  

  God Save Us From the Economists

  by Timothy Noah

  Actress Jayne Mansfield was killed in a 1967 traffic accident; a truck trailer safety regulation review prompted in part by her highly public demise was finally implemented in 1996, after nearly 9,000 people were killed in similar crashes. Why? Blame a bipartisan faith in economists as policymakers. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  10/15/2022
  

  The Crossroads: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Inadequacy of Politics as Usual

  "Today, we have lived through two terms of a Black presidency and the highest concentration of Black elected officials in Congress and beyond in American history. So the question of whether we can vote our way into liberation is no longer an abstraction."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/7/2022
  

  Obama's Lost Manuscript is Also a Lost Path to a Left Populism

  by Timothy Shenk

  Substantive politics? Broad-based material benefits for the mass of Americans? Rejecting the rule of credentialed technocrats? Mobilizing voters and legislating instead of relying on the courts to protect basic rights? An unpublished 1990s manuscript co-authored by Barack Obama may leave readers wondering what happened to those ideas. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/4/2022
  

  Review Essay: How the Biggest Party Started Thinking Small

  Books by Michael Kazin and Lily Geismer trace the rise and fall of the Democratic Party's reign as a party of big ideas and big initiatives. 

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• 9/11/2022
  

  Inflation Opened the Door to American Neoliberalism

  by Thom Hartmann

  An inflationary crisis proved to be the justification for reworking the American political economy in the direction of the vast inequality we observe today. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/18/2022
  

  Ailing Empires: The Rhetoric of Decline in Britain and the US

  by Jed Esty

  If the US is following behind Great Britain in experiencing the strains of a collapsing empire, can Americans, their leaders, and their thinkers learn any lessons from the comparison and make a post-imperial society that is more humane and less nasty? 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/22/2022
  

  Review: Does Gary Gerstle Get to the Meaning of Neoliberalism?

  by Steven Hahn

  Reviewer Steven Hahn says that Gerstle's new book effectively bridges the economic transformation of global capitalism with studies of the fracturing of the Democratic New Deal political coalition. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  7/21/2022
  

  Review: Gerstle on Free Markets and Besieged Citizens

  by Robert Kuttner

  Gary Gerstle's new history aims to define the political order that began under Jimmy Carter and resulted in the overturning of New Deal liberalism for the empty promises of a market society, with the power of the state insulating capitalism from democracy.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/27/2022
  

  1989-2001: America's "Lost Weekend" When the Nation Blew its Shot at Peace and Prosperity

  How did the United States go from victory in the Cold War and an economic boom to the brink of collapse? A decade of political rhetoric denying any useful role for government was a factor. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/15/2022
  

  Review: Gary Gerstle Argues the Pandemic Killed the Neoliberal Era (But Democrats Don't Know It Yet)

  by Ed Burmila

  "Gerstle makes an all but indisputable case that neoliberalism has had its lamentable time in the sun. The question that remains is: What comes next? As things stand at present, you’re probably not going to like it."

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• SOURCE: N + 1
  6/1/2022
  

  Review Essay: Who Did Neoliberalism?

  by Erik Baker

  New books wrestle with the rise and collapse of the 1960s New Left and the gulf between its aspirations and achievements, and assess whether 1960s radical intellectuals are responsible for present-day neoliberalism. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/16/2022
  

  Lily Geismer on the Dismal Legacy of the "New Democrats"

  A reviewer calls a new book on the 1990s a sobering look at the effects of tying social policy to the market. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/20/2022
  

  Lily Geismer: The Clinton Legacy is Well-Intentioned Failure

  "I wanted to challenge the common view that the story of US politics after 1968 is solely about the rise of the right, and that the Democrats adopted the policies that they did as a way of playing electoral defense."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/13/2022
  

  Gary Gerstle: Is the Neoliberal Era Over?

  "Will new political movements emerge with the strength to compel a serious redistribution of wealth away from elites and toward the masses without reproducing the tyranny that became so intrinsic to communism? This is one of the key questions of our time."

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  4/11/2022
  

  TODAY: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

  Today, Gary Gerstle discusses the fall of the neoliberal political order in a discussion with Lizabeth Cohen and Kristina Spohr as part of the National History Center's Washington History Seminar. 

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• 4/3/2022
  

  The Lost Opportunity to Set Post-Soviet Russia on a Stable Course

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  The transition from communism was always going to be difficult for Russia and other post-Soviet states. But American politicians and advisors must share blame for the rise of oligarchy and Putinism as responses to economic instability.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/4/2022
  

  Ukraine Beyond the Post-Soviet Frame

  by Ileana Nachescu

  Framing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an extension of grievances that festered during the Soviet era ignores the drastic changes wrought in Eastern Europe by neoliberal capitalism, racism, sexism, migration and patriarchal religion, and sustains an impoverished view of what peace and freedom in Ukraine can be.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/25/2022
  

  Abortion isn't a "Choice" without Racial Justice

  by Sara Matthiesen

  The recent failure of the broad social spending initiatives of Build Back Better and the impending judicial overthrow of Roe are connected, and signal the need for a movement for reproductive freedom that goes beyond "choice" to address systemic inequalities. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  1/24/2022
  

  The Role of Liberals in the Neoliberal Turn

  by Claire Dunning

  Benjamin Holtzman's new book asks readers to reconsider the role of local community organizations and their liberal allies in creating the turn to market processes and entrepreneurial social programs associated with neoliberal urban policy. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/11/2022
  

  France's Socialists Adopted Neoliberalism and Punched their Tickets to Irrelevance

  "What was the history that brought the French left to its current state of crisis, and does it show what other countries are going to experience in the future?"