Interview - How the Right Won the Economics War w/ Marshall Steinbaum (Patreon)
Published:
2021-02-09 22:48:46
Edited:
2021-02-10 01:11:09
Imported:
2024-06
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Having been a marginal force on the fringes of academia, neoliberal thinking eventually conquered the discipline of economics. How did this happen? And is there any hope for an alternative? Our own Luke Savage talks to Marshall Steinbaum (writer and assistant professor of economics at the University of Utah) about how the neoclassical right’s astonishingly successful intellectual revolution came about, its core beliefs, and the profoundly antidemocratic animus it owes to the liberalism of the nineteenth century.