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Redistributive effects and increasing social inequality have in fact been such a persistent feature of neoliberalization as to be regarded as structural to the whole project. Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, after careful reconstruction of the data, have concluded that neoliberalization was from the very beginning a project to achieve the

In doing so, markets offload the environmental damage of global demand on to locals (often indigenous peoples) who have less power in international trade negotiations. No one pays for the environmental and social damage of Amazonian deforestation when they buy Brazilian beef. The

“Money has been the oil that has kept the wheels of society turning and allowed the complexity of our present civilization to develop, but credit, the centralized creation of money, interest, and particularly compound interest, have seriously destabilized the relationship between money and the goods and services, or wealth, it originally

consider the revolutionary findings of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Andrew McAfee in his 2019 book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next.

The charity paradigm obscures the real issues at stake: it makes it seem as though the West is ‘developing’ the global South, when in reality the opposite is true. Rich countries aren’t developing poor countries; poor countries are effectively developing rich countries – and they have been since the late 15th century.

Comme nous l’avons vu, depuis les années 1930, les néolibéraux de l’école de Genève pensaient que l’empire pouvait prendre fin dès lors que les droits de la propriété privée – ou ce que je qualifie, d’après Hayek, de droits du xenos – étaient protégés partout dans le monde et que la libre circulation des capitaux et des marchandises disciplinait le

Malthusians, modern and classical, the reason we’re headed to hell in a handbasket is that people are rapacious and untamable, creatures of passion and impulse. Those drives will lead us inexorably to consume endlessly, but we’ve seen that people aren’t always like that, while corporations are always like that—the profit motive makes them so—which