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Neoliberalism

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

How Emerging Markets Hurt Poor Countries

Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead, it transfers money to the global North and exacerbates existing inequalities. 

C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh

Politics

Against Incrementalism

Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.

Martin O’Neill

Class & Inequality

China and the Lure of Global Capitalism

Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.

Macabe Keliher

Class & Inequality

Neoliberalism’s Bailout Problem

Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.

Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Housing Is a Social Good

The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson

Class & Inequality, Politics

“Marx’s Old Mole is Right Beneath the Surface”

Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Global Justice

Spectacle and Social Murder in Pandemic India

Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists.

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Law & Justice

How Law Made Neoliberalism

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal

Politics

From Revolution to Reformism

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

Adam Przeworski

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Why Privatization Is Wrong

Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.

Chiara Cordelli

Politics

The Real Reason the GOP Suppresses the Vote

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

Yochai Benkler

Politics

Rethinking Political Economy

Rejecting market fundamentalism, Rethinking Political Economy will provide space for advancing alternatives—in theory, politics, and policy—to the neoliberalism of the last forty years.

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