Goodbye to All That?: On the Failure of Neo-Liberalism & the Urgency of Change Edited by Robert Manne and David McKnight

Book Description

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For 30 years, politics in Australia and the West has been shaped by a dominant ideology: Neoliberalism or market fundamentalism.

In late 2008, with the arrival of the Global Financial Crisis, the ideas of market fundamentalism suddenly brought the world economy to its knees. Even more damagingly, it was the true believers in the market faith who led the campaign to deny the danger climate change poses to the future of the Earth.

Goodbye to All That examines the central tenets and flawed characters of neoliberal philosophy. It discusses its consequences, growing inequity, weakening social bonds, rising individualism and materialism, and paralysis in the face of global warming. It asks whether the era of neoliberalism is really finished, and if so, what set of ideas and values might now take its place.