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A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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The Balance Budget Amendment Is a Part of the US Constitution

There's a fetish of constitutionalism that i think took over and, and you know, still exists in certain sub groups of the of neo liberal intellectual world. This notion that if you can just get the constitution right, then somehow order will follow, right? Or the institutions will follow, and the people will follow. It's tlked about as the kind of n game of neo liberal a engineering write this is, this is the game t that they've been playing. The introduction of these kind of limits on government det in the european union were immediately transgressed by the supposedly most economically responsible om actors within theeuropean union,. namely germany and france

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