A Glance in the Rear View Mirror: Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present

by Eric Toussaint

Overview

As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-expert to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608462544
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	07/17/2012
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Eric Toussaint is president of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM), and author of numerous books on economic policy

Table of Contents

Table of contents

Introduction
Liberalism Eclipsed: from the 1930s upto the 1970s
Liberal ideology returns with a vengeance: the 1970s
The theoretical foundation of the various neo-liberal currents
Forerunners of the neo-liberals
Adam Smith
Jean-Baptiste Say
David Ricardo
Other economists
The Keynesian revolution
Preparing the neo-liberal counter-revolution
The neo-liberal wave
Robert Lucas and the denial of involuntary unemployment
Free markets ensure the optimum allocation of resources - a key postulate of neo-conservatism
Portraying the oppressed as oppressors: the neo-liberal sleight of hand
Globalization from Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama until today
The market: the new faith Shanghai
The Irish crisis: a complete failure for neo-liberalism

Bibliography