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In our world, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act
The defining characteristic of neoliberalism is it’s use of crisis and disaster to force its market based dogma upon a captive society. In the process, neoliberalism destroys community and compassion while encouraging rampant and destructive individualism. This has been a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, A Peoples History of the United States, age of Trump, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act, Fear City, feral elite, Howard Zinn, Kim Phillips-Fein, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, Powell memo, resistance, shock doctrine
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The Flight to Serfdom
Neoliberal economist Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, in 1944, where he warned of totalitarian governments terrorizing their citizens. Hayek’s dystopian vision is upon us, only instead of totalitarian governments it’s all-powerful corporations like United Airlines that we … Continue reading
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Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Chicago Boys, concentration, Dr. Dao, Flight to Serfdom, Fly the Friendly Sky's, Friedrich Hayek, mergers and acquisitions, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, oligopoly, public relations, Road to Serfdom, United Airlines, University of Chicago, Yves Smith
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N is for Neofeudalism
Everything that was old is new again. Take feudalism, it’s making a comeback. The US economy is trending towards wage bondage and economic polarization, with an all-American debt peonage that I’ve come to call neofeudalism. Heterodox economist Michael Hudson explains how … Continue reading
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Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, austerity, bankers, bankers in orange jumpsuits, banksters, bondholders, debt, debt serfdom, dystopian, financialization, J is For Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Middle-Ages, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, privatization, science fiction, serfs, serfs up, starving the beast
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Back to the Future
Ideologies that serve elite interests never really go away, they just reconstitute in new guises. In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, author David Harvey argues provocatively that neoliberalism is a continuation of early capitalism, whereby modern corporations are busy re-privitizing … Continue reading
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Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, A Peoples History of the United States, David Harvey, forth factor of production, Howard Zinn, Michael Perelman, Mike Lofgren, Nixonland, rent seeking, Rick Perlstein, Simon Patten, The Invention of Capitalism, The Party's Over
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