America’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it’s time for us to turn our backs to it.
While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don’t fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and explains how we can use this pivotal point in time to create a more positive future.
This book traces the history of neoliberalism-which applies to a set of capitalistic philosophies favoring free trade, financial austerity, and deregulation-up to the present. Hartmann explains how neoliberalism was sold as a cure for wars and the Great Depression. He outlines the impact that it has had on America, looking at different sectors, including healthcare, unemployment, and education.
Hartmann highlights how America can go one of two ways: continue going down the road to neoliberal oligarchy, as supported by the GOP, or choose to return to FDR’s Keynesian economics, raise taxes on the rich, reverse free trade, and create a more pluralistic society.
Tabla de materias
Foreword by Greg Palast
Introduction: The Plot To Save The World 3
Save us from the utopians 6
The birth of Neoliberalism 9
Neoliberalism’s Fathers: Mises, Hayek and Friedman 13
Ludwig von Mises and the “Critical Race Theory” of neoliberalism 13
FA Hayek vs. the birth of Democratic Socialism 15
Milton Friedman 19
Neoliberalism Goes to Work 23
Nationwide Neoliberalism Experiments 25
Milton Friedman Hearts General Pinochet 26
Neoliberalism comes to America 31
Bill Clinton hearts the neoliberal revolution 35
George W Bush Pushes Neoliberalism even farther 39
Neoliberalism blows up in Bush’s face 43
Obama rescues neoliberalism from itself 46
Trump attacks neoliberalism 46
Biden challenges neoliberalism’s core concepts 47
How Neoliberalism Changed America in 40 years 48
Taxes 48
Trade 49
Healthcare 50
Education and Higher Education 51
Finance 51
Employment 52
Homelessness 52
Inflation 53
Media and News 54
The environment 55
Privatizing the commons 55
Destruction of democracy 60
Breaking with 40 Years of Neoliberalism 61
#Tax The Rich 62
Rebuilding a middle class gutted by neoliberalism 62
Trade: Returning to Alexander Hamilton’s “American Plan” 66
What is real wealth? 69
Hamilton’s 11 step plan worked for 188 years 70
Tariffs built America 71
But what about the cost of American-made goods? 71
How China escaped neoliberalism 74
America adopted neoliberalism and all I got was this made-in-China Tee Shirt 75
Neoliberal trade policy rejected by South Korea 78
Reverse privatization of core government functions 80
Break up the monopolies 81
Progressive Populism to replace progressive neoliberalism 82
Standing on the edge 85
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Sobre el autor
Thom Hartmann is a four‐time winner of the Project Censored Award, a New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, and America’s #1 progressive talk radio show host for more than a decade. His show is carried on Sirius XM and radio stations nationwide and simulcast as television on Free Speech TV.
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