The quiet coup : neoliberalism and the looting of America
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New York : W.W. Norton, 2024.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
1324091169, 9781324091165
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xli, 420 pages ; 24 cm
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New Adult Fiction - Public Shelving
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton, 2024.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
1324091169, 9781324091165
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-390) and index.
Description
"With the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren't college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is government completely inept in the face of natural disasters? And why do pundits tell us that the economy is strong even though the majority of Americans can barely make ends meet? In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran, one of our leading public intellectuals, argues that the system is in fact rigged toward the powerful, though it wasn't the work of evil puppet masters behind the curtain. Rather, the rigging was carried out by hundreds of (mostly) law-abiding lawyers, judges, regulators, policy makers, and lobbyists. Adherents of a market-centered doctrine called neoliberalism, these individuals, over the course of decades, worked to transform the nation--and succeeded. They did so by changing the law in unseen ways. Tracing this largely unknown history from the late 1960s to the present, Baradaran demonstrates that far from yielding fewer laws and regulations, neoliberalism has in fact always meant more--and more complex--laws. Those laws have uniformly benefited the wealthy. From the work of a young Alan Greenspan in creating 'Black Capitalism,' to Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell's efforts to unshackle big money donors, to the establishment of the 'Law and Economics' approach to legal interpretation--in which judges render opinions based on the principles of right-wing economics--Baradaran narrates the key moments in the slow-moving coup that was, and is, neoliberalism. Shifting our focus away from presidents and national policy, she tells the story of how this nation's laws came to favor the few against the many, threatening the integrity of the market and the state. Some have claimed that the neoliberal era is behind us. Baradaran shows that such thinking is misguided. Neoliberalism is a failed economic idea--it doesn't, in fact, create more wealth or more freedom. But it has been successful nevertheless, by seizing the courts and enabling our age of crypto fraud, financial instability, and accelerating inequality."--,W.W. Norton website
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Baradaran, M. (2024). The quiet coup: neoliberalism and the looting of America (First edition.). W.W. Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Baradaran, Mehrsa, 1978-. 2024. The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America. W.W. Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Baradaran, Mehrsa, 1978-. The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America W.W. Norton, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Baradaran, Mehrsa. The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America First edition., W.W. Norton, 2024.
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