Post-Neoliberalism

Pathways for Transformative Economics and Politics

This project brings experts from across academic disciplines in a discussion about the challenges and remarkable transformative potential of our time.
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Did We Do MMT During COVID? A Comment on Pavlina Tcherneva’s “Whatever It Takes”

L. Randall Wray

In this comment on Pavlina Tcherneva’s piece, L. Randall Wray examines how the COVID pandemic and subsequent policies reinforced the neoliberal order. He rejects the critics’ claim that the COVID response was informed by MMT and describes what adopting an MMT informed approach to “whatever it takes” would actually look like.

26 April 2024. Rubric 5

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Labour in a Post-Work Society: How Should It Be Organized?

Peter Fleming

Paid employment within the formal economy is facing an uncertain future. Prognoses range from tragic joblessness, to lives emancipated from the drudgery of labour. Critical examinations of this post-work condition focus almost solely on the non-work side of the equation. There is little sustained consideration of the work that will remain, who will do it, or how it will be organized.

02 April 2024. Rubric 4

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Whatever It Takes: How Neoliberalism Hijacked the Public Purse

Pavlina Tcherneva

The spectacular government spending post-2008 and post-2020 appeared to upend the neoliberal logic of the past decades, opening the door to a more just and democratic social order. Specific policy choices stamped out this opportunity. The pivotal moments point to policy levers that can facilitate a breakthrough.

01 March 2024. Rubric 5

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A Comment on Albena Azmanova’s “Precarity for All”

Arjun Appadurai

Counter to the widespread opinion that the growth of right-wing populisms is caused by rising inequality or alternatively, the need for security and stability in uncertain times, it should be viewed as an expression of a new found popular appetite for risk, transferred from the economy to politics.

08 February 2024. Rubric 1

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Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One

James K. Galbraith

In this piece originally published by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Galbraith writes about how "The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science".

25 April 2024. Rubric 3

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What is Ailing the 99 Percent?

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A Comment on Albena Azmanova’s “Precarity for All”

08 February 2024

Polymorphous Populism

10 January 2024

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Neoliberalism and the Fate of Political Liberalism

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Varieties of Capitalism and Trajectories of Social Transformation

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Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One

25 April 2024

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Robert Reich, in Interview: Bringing Industrial Policy Back In

20 November 2023

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The Future of Work

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Labour in a Post-Work Society: How Should It Be Organized?

02 April 2024

How Capitalism Deforms the Logic of Work – and How to Reclaim It

30 January 2024

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Finance, Democracy, and the State

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Did We Do MMT During COVID? A Comment on Pavlina Tcherneva's "Whatever It Takes"

26 April 2024

Whatever It Takes: How Neoliberalism Hijacked the Public Purse

01 March 2024

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After Neoliberalism: Emergent Futures

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Will Austerity and Precarity Finish Off the Human Species?

30 November 2023

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Theory Production: Critique, Diagnoses, Contestation

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Entropy, the Theory of Value and the Future of Humanity

02 February 2024

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A Comment on Dani Rodrik's “New Paradigm for Economic Policy”

21 November 2023

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