This note, responding to suggestions that neoliberalism is "in decline" as a guiding ideology of economic policymaking and model of political-economic practice, argues for a reserved attitude toward such claims given their having been so numerous and so consistently incorrect in the past; the...

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 paper considers the way in which the predominance of neo-liberalism as a social and economic model has framed thinking about the available options with regard to address of the ecological crisis — what is seen as possible, plausible and desirable. The paper specifically argues that...

"The Neoliberal Record: Growth: A Second Look" is a follow-up to analyses the author published in 2018 and 2019. It specifically reexamines the available time series' on Gross World Product for the sake of fuller evaluation of the performance of the neoliberal era within the longer-run of modern...

This paper offers a comprehensive consideration of the economic policies of the administration of President William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) with regard to answering the question "Was it neoliberal?"

This note considers cryptocurrency's emergence and development as a symbol of the economic thrust of the neoliberal era--in its vision of the liberation of economic activity from the state, the limits of place, "materiality" and association with "real economic activity," and the opacity for...

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...

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 discusses the concept of "quasi-middle classness"--a situation differing from middle classness in that the individual or household in question enjoys a level and "style" of consumption associated with middle class persons (e.g. they own a house and car), but does not enjoy other...

This note considers David Rodgers' argument against the relevance of the term "neoliberalism" on the grounds that it combines disparate phenomena perhaps more usefully treated separately—in particular, "market fundamentalism"; a model of financialized-globalized capitalism; "disaster...