Clara E. Mattei on the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.

Clara's book is out in German! Find it here:

Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.

https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals

Shownotes

Clara E. Mattei’s website:

https://www.claramattei.com/

Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma:

https://sites.utulsa.edu/chetu/

CHE’s YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@CHE-tulsa

Mattei, C. E. (2022). The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. University of Chicago Press.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo181707138.html

the german translation:

Mattei, C. E. (2025). Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.

https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals

on „Derisking“:

Amarnath, S., Brusseler, M., Gabor, D., Lala, C., Mason, JW (2023). Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/

on “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency

on the new german “Sondervermögen” to invest in rearmament and infrastructure:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-set-to-spend-big-on-army-and-infrastructure/a-71834527

on the 1920 International Financial Conference in Brussels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_International_Financial_Conference_(1920)

on the 1922 Economic and Financial Conference in Genoa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa_Economic_and_Financial_Conference_(1922)

on Google’s contract with the IDF:

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349582/google-israel-defense-forces-idf-contract-gaza

Benanav, A. (2022). Socialist Investment, Dynamic Planning, and the Politics of Human Need. Rethinking Marxism, 34(2), 193–204.

https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2022.2051375

Sirianni, C. J. (1980). Workers’ Control in the Era of World War I: A Comparative Analysis of the European Experience. Theory and Society, 9(1), 29–88.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/656823

on the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers%27_Movement

Braun, B. (2021) Central Bank Planning for Public Purpose. In: Fassin, D. and Fourcade, M. (eds.) Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus. HAU Books, pp. 105–121.

https://benjaminbraun.org/assets/pubs/braun_central-bank-planning-public-purpose.pdf

on the “Phillips Curve”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve

Arun K. Patnaik. (1988). Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense: Towards a Theory of Subaltern Consciousness in Hegemony Processes. Economic and Political Weekly, 23(5).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4378042

Thomas, P.D. (2015). Gramsci’s Marxism: The ‘Philosophy of Praxis’. In: McNally, M. (eds.) Antonio Gramsci. Critical Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137334183_6

on the US Solidarity Economy:

https://neweconomy.net/solidarity-economy/

the US Solidarity Economy Network:

https://ussen.org/

the US Solidarity Economy Map and Directory:

https://solidarityeconomy.us/

If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website

https://www.democratic-planning.com/

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning

https://www.indep.network/

Democratic Planning Research Platform:

https://www.planningresearch.net/

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