{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-neoliberal-order-america-and-the-world-in-the-free-market-era-hardcover","title":"The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary Gerstle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs in developing nations around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order\u003c\/em\u003e, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades. As he shows, the neoliberal order that emerged in America in the 1970s fused ideas of deregulation with personal freedoms, open borders with cosmopolitanism, and globalization with the promise of increased prosperity for all. Along with tracing how this worldview emerged in America and grew to dominate the world, Gerstle explores the previously unrecognized extent to which its triumph was facilitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies. He is also the first to chart the story of the neoliberal order's fall, originating in the failed reconstruction of\u003cbr\u003eIraq and Great Recession of the Bush years and culminating in the rise of Trump and a reinvigorated Bernie Sanders-led American left in the 2010s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn indispensable and sweeping re-interpretation of the last fifty years, this book illuminates how the ideology of neoliberalism became so infused in the daily life of an era, while probing what remains of that ideology and its political programs as America enters an uncertain future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGary Gerstle\u003c\/strong\u003e is Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus and Paul Mellon Director of Research at the University of Cambridge. He is the author and editor of more than ten books, including two prizewinners, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Crucible\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eLiberty and Coercion\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). He is a \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e columnist and has also written for the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDissent\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. He frequently appears on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, ITV 4, Talking Politics, and NPR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 9.52 x 6.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382271623346,"sku":"9780197519646","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1a3390921b88ae949662c897b04b75a0.webp?v=1777832076","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-neoliberal-order-america-and-the-world-in-the-free-market-era-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}