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Neoliberalism and its discontents

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Neoliberalism and the New Order of Reason

I think it's really important to see that we all start thinking of ourselves as little bits of human capital and contrary to Noah's strong support of unions, unions themselves are busted and assaulted because they're understood as interfering in competitive markets. So actually existing neoliberalism kind of messes with the thing. And it's like asking if the Holy Roman Empire was really Roman. Well, it said it was. It's right there in the name.So I don't have a dog in that fight about what we do and don't call neoliberalism. What I'm interested in is exposing the difference between the idea that all that happened in the 70s as we put capitalism on steroids,. We just

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