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After decades of inequality and broken promises, voters chose disruption over progress.
Climate change is a global challenge, yet trade rules do not allow developing countries to break with neoliberal orthodoxy.
In 2011 Colin Crouch’s The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism appeared to acclaim. Its author reflects on a shifting landscape since.
The rejection of the new constitution in a referendum has deep historical traces.
For 40 years, elites in rich and poor countries promised neoliberal policies would lead to faster growth and the benefits would trickle down so that everyone would be better off.
Sheri Berman warns that, however self-evident the crisis of this neoliberal phase of capitalism may appear, it will not automatically collapse.
When laissez-faire economics led to catastrophe in 1929, Keynes devised a comprehensive economic theory to replace it. When Keynesian demand management hit the buffers in the 70s, there was an…
In the dusk of neoliberalism a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times.
The crisis of neoliberalism and war in Europe have left all that was solid melting into air.
Recent political and economic developments in Turkey have been worrying for Western governments for some time. However, busy with their own political crises, governments have been either slow or reluctant…
Sheri Berman argues that post-communist left embrace of economic as well as political liberalism allowed populists to target the latter.
As even its harshest critics concede, neoliberalism is hard to pin down. In broad terms, it denotes a preference for markets over government, economic incentives over social or cultural norms,…
The Democratic Party primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is being fought in the shadow of “neoliberalism” – in the shadow, that is, of the economic policies and…
Soon after the newly elected Austrian government was formed as a coalition of the conservatives and the far right in December 2017, an appeal to boycott the far right Austrian…
It’s time to talk about a new social contract—one that women desperately need.
Sixty years on from Polanyi’s death and 80 since his classic text appeared, it is time to reassess the Hungarian social scientist’s legacy.