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How the neoliberalism of ‘Hayek’s Bastards’ changed the world – and fuelled the rise of the populist right

How the neoliberalism of ‘Hayek’s Bastards’ changed the world – and fuelled the rise of the populist right

When the Cold War came to an end, neoliberals appealed to nature in order to justify inequality.

12.08.2025 50

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Christopher Pollard

Is inequality a natural phenomenon? Thomas Piketty argues it isn’t – and proposes a way forward

Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we...

18.11.2024 20

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Christopher Pollard

A ‘superficial’ and ‘misguided’ version of freedom has captured the American right. Joseph Stiglitz considers the alternatives

“Freedom is a core human value,” writes Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. “But many of freedom’s...

15.09.2024 2

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Christopher Pollard

Flunkies, goons and managerial feudalism: why David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs is the book that keeps on giving

Our cultural touchstones series looks at influential books. The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School...

30.07.2024 1

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Christopher Pollard