political economy

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  12/10/2020
  

  The Growth Of Market-Oriented Urban Policy — A Review Of Neoliberal Cities

  by Tracy Neumann

  A new collection of essays seeks to develop a historical understanding and grounding for the often vague term "neoliberalism" through its transformation of urban space and politics. 

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  10/2/2020
  

  This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future: John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World

  Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  9/22/2020
  

  How the Welfare State Became the Neoliberal Order (Review)

  by Pablo Pryluka

  Although the Tennessee Valley Authority was a pioneering public works project, its alumni worked in Latin America to advance redevelopment projects that elevated the authority of big business, a model now associated with the neoliberal turn in the developed world. 

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  5/18/2020
  

  Keynes and the Good Life

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  Keynes did not give us a checklist of dos and don’ts other than general ones: Don’t waste human talents and physical resources through wanton unemployment, avoidable wars, or breakdowns of social and trade relations.