#1320 The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Neoliberalism (Audio Fixed)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Air Date: 11/20/2019
Today we take a look at how Neoliberalism was born, how it was maintained and why it is on the verge of collapse.
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Nick and his guests discuss the history, the cultural and economic impact of neoliberalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | learn about how neoliberalism was born, how it's been maintained, and why it is reasonable |
| 0:14.4 | to believe that it is on the verge of collapse. |
| 0:18.3 | Before we get started though, I have some thoughts on this because we can't get right into |
| 0:23.6 | neoliberalism and understanding why it's reasonable to think that it's going to collapse |
| 0:28.8 | without a little bit of context. |
| 0:31.4 | Long time listeners may know that I'm a big fan of context. |
| 0:34.8 | I usually tell stories where I have to back up several weeks, several months, maybe even |
| 0:40.5 | a few years to give context for this one we have to back up about 130 years. |
| 0:48.4 | I want to talk about the macroversion of macroeconomics, the economics that spans errors, not |
| 0:56.5 | just years or even a decade. |
| 0:59.6 | The reason for this is because once you back up far enough, you begin to see these very |
| 1:04.6 | predictable cycles emerging in our history, and not just our history, but that's what I'm |
| 1:11.6 | focusing on for today. |
| 1:13.8 | Speaking of trickle-down economics, we usually think of that as stemming from the 1980s, |
| 1:19.4 | that being a Ronald Reagan policy, but it turns out that is not where it came from originally. |
| 1:26.3 | It came from at least the 1890s under President Harding. |
| 1:34.0 | Since we're taking a look at history in wide swaths, looking at eras, I'm looking at the |
| 1:41.8 | range between 1890, this introduction of they didn't call it trickle-down economics |
| 1:47.7 | at the time, but it was the same idea. |
| 1:50.4 | It was the beginning of those three decades that created the gilded age right before the |
| 1:57.8 | Great Depression. |
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