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How Pinochet's Chile Became a Laboratory for Neoliberalism
The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.
by
Vincent Bevins
via
The Nation
on
November 14, 2023
How Chicago School Economists Reshaped American Justice
The 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking work.
via
The Economist
on
September 7, 2023
The Localist
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
by
Jonathan Levy
via
Boston Review
on
June 28, 2023
Colossus Wears Tweed
A number of recent books blame the rise of neoliberalism on economists. But the evidence suggests it is still capital that rules.
by
Quinn Slobodian
via
Dissent
on
December 1, 2020
How the Chicago School Changed the Meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’
Smith wasn’t warning about government intervention in the market; he was warning about government capture.
by
Glory M. Liu
via
Washington Post
on
April 22, 2019
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter
The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.
by
Krithika Varagur
via
The New Yorker
on
January 12, 2024
Neoliberal Economists Like Milton Friedman Cheered on Augusto Pinochet’s Dictatorship
Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman helped devise Pinochet's economic agenda and endorsed the brutal repression that was needed to force it through.
by
Jessica Whyte
via
Jacobin
on
September 11, 2023
The Betrayal of Adam Smith
How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The New Republic
on
February 27, 2023
May God Save Us From Economists
Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding.
by
Timothy Noah
via
The New Republic
on
October 25, 2022
When Neoliberalism Hijacked Human Rights
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.
by
Jeanne Morefield
via
Jacobin
on
January 5, 2020
The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever, Can They?
Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.
by
Liaquat Ahamed
via
The New Yorker
on
August 26, 2019
Wayward Leviathans
How America's corporations lost their public purpose.
by
David Ciepley
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
March 1, 2019
Unchecked Power
How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.
by
Ganesh Sitaraman
via
The New Republic
on
November 29, 2018
Neoliberalism’s World Order
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.
by
Adam Tooze
via
Dissent
on
July 1, 2018
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement
A short history puts contemporary anti-monopoly movements in context.
by
Ariel Ezrachi
,
Maurice E. Stucke
via
Harvard Business Review
on
December 15, 2017
Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airlines?
In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.
by
Elie Mystal
via
The Nation
on
March 11, 2025
The End of Milton Friedman’s Reign
The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.
by
Patrick Iber
via
The New Republic
on
November 13, 2023
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism
The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
July 17, 2023
The Dawn of Austerity
An interview with the author of "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism."
by
Nick Serpe
,
Clara Mattei
via
Dissent
on
February 17, 2023
The Contradictions of Adam Smith
Smith's influence on American politics, and the misunderstanding at the heart of our idea of the "champion of capitalism."
by
Glory M. Liu
,
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
via
The Nation
on
December 14, 2022
We Don't Know, But Let's Try It
For economist Albert Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty.
by
Simon Torracinta
via
Boston Review
on
June 17, 2021
The End of Friedmanomics
The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.
by
Zachary D. Carter
via
The New Republic
on
June 17, 2021
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Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery
Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.
by
Davarian L. Baldwin
via
Made By History
on
April 1, 2021
Thirty Glorious Years
Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?
by
Jonathan Hopkin
via
Aeon
on
October 2, 2020
Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?
A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.
by
Gabriel Winant
via
The Nation
on
January 21, 2020
How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
by
Matt Stoller
via
The Atlantic
on
October 24, 2016
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