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Mark Blyth - A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why
Political economist Mark Blyth gives a lecture tracing two versions of capitalist 'software': the postwar Great Compression era and the neoliberal era from 1980 to 2008. He explains the bug that crashed the first and the design of the second.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a great primer on how neoliberalism developed and why the postwar order broke down.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- McMaster Humanities
- Topic
- history of neoliberalism
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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"Other People's Blood". “...to establish its credibility, the Federal Reserve had to demonstrate its willingness to spill blood, lots of blood, other people’s blood.” - Reagan’s economic adviser Michael Mussa on Volker [LINK] I've been desperate to learn more about this since watching Mark Blyth's …
ep103 on Hacker News · 2019-12
In Paul Volcker has diedneoliberalism has a fairly specific meaning in academic contexts. There absolutely was a "culture war", or war of ideas, that was waged to sell deregulation and privatization to the masses. Ironically, these included some fairly generous handouts, e.g. earned income credits or the welfare programs …
0xfaded on Hacker News · 2021-02
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