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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Philip Mirowski
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Description for Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Paperback. The definitive account of why neoliberal solutions were used to solve a neoliberal crisis. Num Pages: 483 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've awoken into a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and exploding sovereign debt crises.
Philip Mirowski argues that, as in classic studies of cognitive dissonance, neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything-a revolutionary account of self, ... Read more
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've awoken into a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and exploding sovereign debt crises.
Philip Mirowski argues that, as in classic studies of cognitive dissonance, neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything-a revolutionary account of self, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
561g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781683026
SKU
V9781781683026
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About Philip Mirowski
Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His many previous books include Machine Dreams and More Heat than Light, and he appeared in Adam Curtis's BBC documentary The Trap.
Reviews for Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
It is hard to imagine a historian who was not an economist (as Mirowski is) being able to encompass the economics of the second half of the 20th century in its diversity and technicality.
London Review of Books
Philip Mirowksi is the most imaginative and provocative writer at work today on the recent history of economics.
Boston ... Read more
London Review of Books
Philip Mirowksi is the most imaginative and provocative writer at work today on the recent history of economics.
Boston ... Read more