It’s worth remembering that the election between Truss and Sunak is among party members. These are mostly people who have paid a subscription to join the party (so are pretty committed to the party) but may not be sufficiently actively involved and committed to aware of ‘electability’ issue...
By making foreign-produced goods more expensive, tariffs can make domestically produced alternatives seem more attractive. Some products made in countries with fewer regulations can harm consumers, such as a product coated in lead-based paint. Tariffs can make these products so expensive that consumers...
The Democrats’ loss is all over the news, and every expert with a degree and a platform is lining up to explain why it happened. Except, they’re not reallyexplaininganything. They’re throwing around words like “neoliberalism” and “economic paradigms” as if everyone spent their weekend ...
What (if anything) can economic anthropology say to neoliberal development? Toward new anthropologies of capitalism and its alternativesEconomic anthropologyAlternative developmentNeoliberalismCritiques of neoliberalism and associated forms of development are now abundant. But few if any draw on the vocabulary...
Neoliberalism and Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Latin America embrace of the Washington Consensus in the 1980s and 1990s; in a very real way, they were the latest episodes in a drama that has been played out since the 1930s over the state and the direction of the region's political .....
Even things that are mostly about things that are what people on the left criticize as neoliberalism are not necessarily about the privatization of the state. Any of the following agenda items can be plausibly called neoliberal: Privatization of state-owned enterprises like the mail, the national ...
For New Humanist: The End of Work as We Know It? The gig economy, history, automation, grassroots workers’ organization and other possible responses to late-stage neoliberalism. For Soundings: Music, Politics and Identity: From Cool Britannia to Grime4Corbyn. Basically Clampdown five years on....
Patients, in response, may actively seek medical legitimacy and resist or disavow “demedicalization” or “psychologization” as alternatives to a biomedical explanation of their symptoms. The challenges of maintaining a legitimate patient identity with a NEAD diagnosis become very stark when ...
The main objective of this paper is to elevate the discussion on the creative city and its socially regressive urban policies by promoting the forgotten values of the industrial city not only as its predecessor but also as its contemporary offering development alternatives. We conducted 23 semi...
It’s noteworthy that many of the mainstream commentators have been insisting that what happened is not who “we” are and so forth. Alternatives to that stultifying message have been making their way into the mainstream media but none have gone all the way to the heart of the matter. How...