J. W. Mason is Assistant Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
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J. W. Mason is Assistant Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
Neoliberals need state power to enforce market relations. To protect it from democratic control, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.
Yanis Varoufakis's lessons for reasserting European social democracy.
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