The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate
American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against
the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the
left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism—a web of related
policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of
government in society and reassigned economic power to private
market forces—that began in the United States and Great Britain
in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word
"neoliberal" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies,
from prizing free market principles over people to advancing
privatization programs in developing nations around the world. To
be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming
trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income
inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The
Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to
reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its
worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left
for three decades. As he shows, the neoliberal order that emerged
in America in the 1970s fused ideas of deregulation with personal
freedoms, open borders with cosmopolitanism, and globalization with
the promise of increased prosperity for all. Along with tracing how
this worldview emerged in America and grew to dominate the world,
Gerstle explores the previously unrecognized extent to which its
triumph was facilitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its
communist allies. He is also the first to chart the story of the
neoliberal order's fall, originating in the failed reconstruction
of Iraq and Great Recession of the Bush years and culminating in
the rise of Trump and a reinvigorated Bernie Sanders-led American
left in the 2010s. An indispensable and sweeping re-interpretation
of the last fifty years, this book illuminates how the ideology of
neoliberalism became so infused in the daily life of an era, while
probing what remains of that ideology and its political programs as
America enters an uncertain future.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Gary Gerstle
(Paul Mellon Professor of American History)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
432 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-767631-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-19-767631-6 |
Barcode: |
9780197676318 |
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