This working paper, a follow-up to "Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization: A Comparison of Economic Models," moves from that paper's prior emphasis on describing the economic model associated with "financialization" to considering the matter quantitatively, examining the patterns of...

"Investments in Societal Complexity, Diminishing Marginal Returns and Neoliberalism: A Note" discusses the switch from "Keynesian Fordism" to "Neoliberal Financialization" as the organizing model for economic policy from the 1970s on, and the consequences for the world economy as understood via...

This paper, a supplement to the author's prior "Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization: A Comparison of Economic Models," holds that the essentials of "Neoliberal Financialization" were in place by the early 1980s, and the structure increasingly completed over the remainder of the...

This paper examines the cliams of Keir Starmer's election to the Labour Party leadership as a Blairite and neoliberal "restoration" by way of an examination of two of Starmer's key statements, namely his ten pledges in the party's February 2020 leadership contest, and his February 2021 "New...

The use of the term "neoliberal" has become controversial in recent years, at least in part because of its diversity of possible uses, and the apparent vagueness or looseness of some of those uses. That controversy has significantly extended to the characterization of center-left political...

"'What is Neoliberalism? And What Has it Meant?': A Primer" endeavors to offer the reader a broad understanding of what has in recent years become the controversial idea, "neoliberalism," on the basis of four claims it makes, explains and defends. These are, namely,1. Neoliberalism is a distinct...

The term neoliberal has been a source of some controversy in recent years, with critics denying its usefulness. In response to those criticisms this paper analyzes neoliberalism--what is here referred to as Neoliberal Financialization--as an economic model, elaborating it and substantially...

This brief note raises the complex matter of the concept of rent-seeking, particularly as it connects with the author's prior discussion of Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization. In doing so the author argues that where Keynesian Fordism, in line with its leveraging of the...

This working paper takes up the question of the "decline" of the neoliberal economic model. Acknowledging the reality of not only the generally weak growth during which that model has prevailed (from the late 1970s on) but the post-Great Recession slowdown in that growth, with its implications...

This note extends the author's prior statistical examination of the reorientation of the U.S. economy toward the financial sector (in its share of investment, activity, assets over the neoliberal period) with an examination of its share of profit-making as a share of GDP in itself, relative to...