Monday, July 14, 2014

Chris Lehman: Neoliberalism, The Revolution in Reverse

   (Quoted with permission, email from Chuck Spinney.)





"This is one of the best critiques on neo-liberalism as an extreme ideology that I have read. It is long but well worth the investment in your time.
On a personal note, I have long been offended by the neo-liberal hijacking of F.A. Hayek’s ideas, especially those on the relationship of central planning to the limits of information, which fit my studies of the Pentagon's decision-making pathologies like a hand fits a glove. Neo-liberals, led by Milton Freedman, have twisted them into an uber capitalist, free-market, quasi-religious dogma. Lehmann’s essay is an admirable evisceration of that extremism."


CHRIS LEHMANN, [from The Baffler No. 24, 2014]

2 comments:

Andy Blatchford said...

I don't think it really gets neoliberalism going to stick with Mirowski http://majority.fm/tag/philip-mirowski/

Roger Erickson said...

thanks andy;
hadn't heard of Mirowski before