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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Taschenbuch von Philip Mirowski
Sprache: Englisch

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At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. And yet, in the harsh light of a new day, we've awoken to a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and an international sovereign debt crisis.

Philip Mirowski finds an apt comparison to this situation in classic studies of cognitive dissonance. He concludes that neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything, providing a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, information, markets, and government, it could no longer be falsified by anything as trifling as data from the "real" economy.

In this sharp, witty and deeply informed account, Mirowski - taking no prisoners in his pursuit of "zombie" economists - surveys the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, finally providing the basis for an anti-neoliberal assessment of the current crisis and our future prospects.
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. And yet, in the harsh light of a new day, we've awoken to a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and an international sovereign debt crisis.

Philip Mirowski finds an apt comparison to this situation in classic studies of cognitive dissonance. He concludes that neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything, providing a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, information, markets, and government, it could no longer be falsified by anything as trifling as data from the "real" economy.

In this sharp, witty and deeply informed account, Mirowski - taking no prisoners in his pursuit of "zombie" economists - surveys the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, finally providing the basis for an anti-neoliberal assessment of the current crisis and our future prospects.
Über den Autor
Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His many previous books include Machine Dreams and More Heat than Light, and he appeared in Adam Curtis’s BBC documentary The Trap.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781781683026
ISBN-10: 1781683026
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mirowski, Philip
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Maße: 208 x 136 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Philip Mirowski
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2014
Gewicht: 0,564 kg
Artikel-ID: 105713236
Über den Autor
Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His many previous books include Machine Dreams and More Heat than Light, and he appeared in Adam Curtis’s BBC documentary The Trap.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781781683026
ISBN-10: 1781683026
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mirowski, Philip
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Maße: 208 x 136 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Philip Mirowski
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2014
Gewicht: 0,564 kg
Artikel-ID: 105713236
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