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![]() Harvey’s main point is that the current global dominance of neoliberalism-a set of policies that includes free trade, low taxes, lax business regulation, reduced government services, and hostility to labor unions-was not the inevitable result of economic logic but was instead the product of a deliberate campaign by wealthy and powerful individuals to secure their class interests. ![]() David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism, a slender but dense volume, provides an explanation for that situation. But a key element is surely the rise of a political economy that allows a tiny international elite to garner unimaginable wealth and wield inordinate political power while the middle and working classes of the developed nations stagnate economically and writhe in political impotence. ![]() The roots of the anti-establishment mood that was so visible this year in the US presidential primaries and the Brexit vote in the UK are no doubt many and complex. A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey (Oxford University Press, 2005) ![]()
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