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Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From one of America's leading thinkers, a provocative diagnosis of the cause of America's decline-and a searing indictment of those who caused it For nearly half a century, Americans have been bombarded by neoliberal propaganda promoting the lie that wages are objectively determined by impersonal labor markets. This falsehood has been repeated by academics, journalists, business leaders, and politicians so often that even many on the liberal left...
3) Hijacked: how neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers and how workers can take it back
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After a modest increase in Metro fares in Santiago, Chile, last October, twenty Metro stations were simultaneously set on fire. The fare increase was the tipping point of years of social malaise. Days later there were more than a million protesters on the streets. The people of Chile were rejecting low pensions, highway tolls, school segregation, low-quality education, and poor public-health services-the result of decades of neoliberalism. Chile...
6) Kraft
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jonas Lüscher, the author of Barbarian Spring --"a most humorous and convincing satire of the ridiculous excesses of those responsible for the financial crisis" (The New York Times Book Review) -- returns to the topic of neoliberal arrogance in his Swiss Book Prize-winning, hilarious, and wicked novel about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world"--
"Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan,...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich "Puertopians" are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, New York Times bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation's radical, resilient vision for a just recovery."--page[4] of cover.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the experiences of citizens where factory closures and outsourcing...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Chaotic Neutral, political scientist Ed Burmila tracks the evolution (or devolution) of the Democratic Party--from the New Deal era to the pandemic, when, even in the midst of a genuine national crisis, the Dems could not manage to pass such sweeping progressive legislation. Why did the Democrats initially abandon their principles, and why haven't they been able to grasp that they need a new strategy in the face of decades of diminishing returns?...
11) The hidden history of neoliberalism: how reaganism gutted America and how to restore its greatness
Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Progressive radio host Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it's time for us to turn our backs to it. While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don't fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and explains how we can use this pivotal point in time to create a more positive future. This book...
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Capitalism, Coronavirus and War investigates the decay of neoliberal financialised capitalism as revealed in the crisis the novel coronavirus triggered, but did not cause, that has been furthered by conflict across the globe. Leading domestically to economic and political breakdown, Covid-19 accelerated the imperial decline in the US-led capitalist world's power, intensifying the tendency to lash out with aggression and militarism, as seen in the...
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