neoliberalism

In which “the intellectual handmaidens of the capitalists” are taken to task.

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.

The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history.

Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman helped devise Pinochet's economic agenda and endorsed the brutal repression that was needed to force it through.

The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.

The Law and Economics movement was one front in the decades-long advance of a revived free-market ideology that became the new American consensus.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

Gary Gerstle’s new book tackles important questions of the last century about democracy, economy, and war. But it fails to answer a basic question.

An excerpt from "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism."

A new history shows how neoliberalism took power during a period of crisis, which leaves open the question of whether it can be forced out as a result of one.

Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

Who did neoliberalism?

A number of recent books blame the rise of neoliberalism on economists. But the evidence suggests it is still capital that rules.

Neoliberals refashioned the idea of freedom by tying it to the free market, and turning it into a weapon to be used against anticolonial projects worldwide.

Neoliberalism set out not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.

In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.