The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era"
English | ISBN: 0197519644 | 2022 | 432 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0197519644 | 2022 | 432 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left.
The epochal shift toward neoliberalism-a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces-that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today,
the word "neoliberal" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs in developing nations around the world.
To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in