Gary Gerstle’s book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order tells how in the aftermath of neoliberalism, a critical history of an economic idea that became hegemonic, weakened states and contributed like no other to the rise of populism.
The triumph of neoliberalism in the late 1970s radically transformed the world, and its mere mention still serves to describe a wide range of political practices associated with the term: the push for free markets over citizens, the privatisation of key sectors of the economy, the impossible demands on developing countries, and the exponential increase in social inequality.
Gary Gerstle points out that such criticisms do not reflect the essence of an economic idea steeped in a conservatism and religiosity that allows it to conflate deregulation with personal freedoms; open borders with cosmopolitanism; and globalisation with the promise of greater prosperity. The author investigates how the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies facilitated the triumph of this new ideology, and helps to understand how it took hold on both the right and the left.
An essential and profound review, now translated and published in Spanish, of recent economic history that delves into the roots of neoliberalism and its progressive conquest of everyday life. Three decades of hegemony until its collision with the forces of Trumpism on the right and the new progressivism on the left.
Pages: 608
Publisher: PENINSULA
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788411001786
RPP: 26,50 euros
