Tag: Neoliberalism

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Neoliberalism rests on the myth that “good” families can provide for their own without public support.

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.

Our long-term goal must go well beyond the Senate bill to build a more resilient economy.

The economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny rather than our choice.

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. We must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.

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

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

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

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?

The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum's new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths.

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.

We live in a world made by neoliberalism, with its hostility to equality and democracy. It is time to stop.

How a revolution in economics has led to a new kind of politics.