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Tag: Neoliberalism

Daniel Martinez HoSang, Mie Inouye

Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.

Christopher Morten, Reshma Ramachandran, Amy Kapczynski

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

Faisal Devji

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

Matthew Crain

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Jamie Martin

To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance.

Oliver Bullough, Daniel Penny

For decades, UK-based financial institutions have exploited loopholes to subvert regulations and shield the wealthy from scrutiny.

Joanna Wuest
Companies are unreliable allies in the fight for queer rights and social justice. We must rebuild a working people's movement.
Raj Patel

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

Simon Torracinta
How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.
Ileana Nachescu
The war is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
Wendy A. Woloson
A cancer diagnosis reveals how pervasive consumerism has become, infecting even the stuff meant to heal us.
Lawrence B. Glickman
Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.
Jayati Ghosh, C. P. Chandrasekhar

Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.

Martin O’Neill

Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.

Prabhat Patnaik

The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.

Macabe Keliher

Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.

Gerald Epstein, Robert Pollin

Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.

H. Jacob Carlson, Gianpaolo Baiocchi
The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market.
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists.

David Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski, Jedediah Britton-Purdy

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Adam Przeworski

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

Chiara Cordelli

Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.

Yochai Benkler
The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.
Boston Review
Rejecting market fundamentalism, Rethinking Political Economy will provide space for advancing alternatives—in theory, politics, and policy—to the neoliberalism of the last forty years.
Steven Vogel, Neil Fligstein

The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.

Martin Gelin
Only a few decades old, the corporate autocracy the former president unleashed on the United States is not natural law. It had to be created, and it can also be undone.
Kevin P. Donovan

Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke. More than higher wages and better job security, a just economy requires giving them the power to choose and create their own futures.

Macabe Keliher
While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.
Edward Fishman

Internationalists are plotting their return, but they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman
Scott Casleton, Alex Vitale
Sociologist Alex Vitale explains how the U.S. policing crisis begins with politics—the decision to embrace neoliberal austerity and to turn the social problems it creates over to police.
Julie Kohler
Neoliberalism rests on the myth that “good” families can provide for their own without public support.
Brishen Rogers
COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our labor markets just as much as the fragility of our public health and welfare systems. As we take the economy out of its induced coma, we should ask what kinds of jobs we want and need.
Felicia Wong, Mike Konczal
Our long-term goal must go well beyond the Senate bill to build a more resilient economy.
Marshall Steinbaum
In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.
Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

Gregg Gonsalves, Amy Kapczynski
Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.
Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

Suresh Naidu

They can give up free-market orthodoxy, but still can’t bring themselves to embrace labor.

Amy Kapczynski

A new, neoliberal interpretation of the First Amendment is undermining the regulatory state—and every labeling and advertising law is now in the crosshairs.

Lenore Palladino

For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.

Katrina Forrester

For five decades Anglophone political philosophy has been dominated by the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls. With liberalism in crisis, have these ideas outlived their time?

Marshall Steinbaum
Lawrence B. Glickman
When Democratic senator Edmund Muskie made a quip about the government being “here to help you,” he surely didn’t know it marked the death of the New Deal.
Joshua Cohen
We live in a world made by neoliberalism, with its hostility to equality and democracy. It is time to stop.
Felicia Wong
How a revolution in economics has led to a new kind of politics.

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