political economy

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/3/2022
  

  Virtue and Vice: Looking for the Real Adam Smith

  by Glory Liu

  Smith's work on political economy has long been seen in tension with his investigation of empathy and other moral sentiments. Paul Sagar's new book argues that scholars have mistaken Smith's intentions in order to falsely reconcile the market and morality. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  7/21/2022
  

  Review: Gerstle on Free Markets and Besieged Citizens

  by Robert Kuttner

  Gary Gerstle's new history aims to define the political order that began under Jimmy Carter and resulted in the overturning of New Deal liberalism for the empty promises of a market society, with the power of the state insulating capitalism from democracy.

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• 6/19/2022
  

  Will Artificial Intelligence be the Agent of Capitalism's (and Humanity's) Creative Destruction?

  by Jim Castagnera

  Between science fiction and the political economy of the present, the author wonders if artificial intelligence will constitute humanity's successor species. 

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• SOURCE: N + 1
  6/1/2022
  

  Review Essay: Who Did Neoliberalism?

  by Erik Baker

  New books wrestle with the rise and collapse of the 1960s New Left and the gulf between its aspirations and achievements, and assess whether 1960s radical intellectuals are responsible for present-day neoliberalism. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/13/2022
  

  Gary Gerstle: Is the Neoliberal Era Over?

  "Will new political movements emerge with the strength to compel a serious redistribution of wealth away from elites and toward the masses without reproducing the tyranny that became so intrinsic to communism? This is one of the key questions of our time."

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  3/11/2022
  

  We're Talking about Climate Change with Outdated Colonial Language

  by Priya Satia

  The dominant climate activist theme of sacrificing in the present to protect the future is rooted in the intellectual history of economics which has driven the profligate consumption and gross inequality that threatens the planet. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/13/2021
  

  America’s 40-Year Experiment With Big Business Is Over

  by Nelson Lichtenstein

  Biden's executive order returns to a longstanding American view of concentrated economic power as a threat to democracy. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/28/2021
  

  The Age of Neoliberalism is Ending in America. What will Replace It?

  by Gary Gerstle

  It will be difficult for the Biden administration to revive a (Green) New Deal Order, but making progress may be key to stopping the nation's slide toward authoritarian and racist forms of populism. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  12/10/2020
  

  The Growth Of Market-Oriented Urban Policy — A Review Of Neoliberal Cities

  by Tracy Neumann

  A new collection of essays seeks to develop a historical understanding and grounding for the often vague term "neoliberalism" through its transformation of urban space and politics. 

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  10/2/2020
  

  This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future: John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World

  Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  9/22/2020
  

  How the Welfare State Became the Neoliberal Order (Review)

  by Pablo Pryluka

  Although the Tennessee Valley Authority was a pioneering public works project, its alumni worked in Latin America to advance redevelopment projects that elevated the authority of big business, a model now associated with the neoliberal turn in the developed world. 

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  5/18/2020
  

  Keynes and the Good Life

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  Keynes did not give us a checklist of dos and don’ts other than general ones: Don’t waste human talents and physical resources through wanton unemployment, avoidable wars, or breakdowns of social and trade relations.