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The Global Failure of Neoliberalism

Privatize Profits; Socialize Losses

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A groundswell discourse of ‘the end of neoliberalism’ is jamming the Left blo- gosphere. It has been building for some time. The Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz (July 7, 2008)1 in Project Syndicate begins his column with the assertion that the ideology of ‘market fundamentalism’ has failed:

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Peters, M.A. (2012). The Global Failure of Neoliberalism. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Obama and The End of the American Dream. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-771-4_6

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