Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

Title: Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era Author: Gary Gerstle ISBN: 9780197676318 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1554271 Publisher Description: The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces--that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word "neoliberal" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing