Thom Hartmann 
The Hidden History of Neoliberalism [EPUB ebook] 
How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness

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.


With four decades of neoliberal rule coming to an end, America is at a crossroads. 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-a set of capitalistic philosophies favoring free trade, low taxes on the rich, financial austerity, and deregulation of big business-up to the present day. Hartmann explains how neoliberalism was sold as a cure for wars and the Great Depression. He outlines the destructive impact that it has had on America, looking at how it has increased poverty, damaged the middle class, and corrupted our nation’s politics.


America is standing on the edge of a new progressive era. We can continue down the road to a neoliberal oligarchy, as supported by many of the nation’s billionaires and giant corporations. Or we can choose to return to Keynesian economics and Alexander Hamilton’s American Plan by raising taxes on the rich, reversing free trade, and building a society that works for all.

Innehållsförteckning

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

Om författaren

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.