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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Free-market economists pushed to end the draft, and prevailed.
Chapter 3: Throughout the 1960s, Keynesian economic power gradually started to fade away.
Chapter 4: With Reagan, supply-side economics and tax cuts dominated policy.
Chapter 5: Chasing economic efficiency let monopolies dominate and tightly control the markets.
Chapter 6: Economists swapped moral judgment for cost-benefit analysis.
Chapter 7: Abandoning fixed exchange rates spawned a vast, volatile new global trading system.
Chapter 8: Pinochet implemented Friedman’s ideas in Chile, yielding chaotic outcomes.
Chapter 9: Unregulated markets frequently produce severe financial disasters.
Description
The Economists’ Hour (2019) is a compact history of how economists came to dominate our political discourse. This work traces the rise of neoliberal ideology from the 1960s to today.
Who Should Listen
- Political wonks wanting to parse the current climate
- Citizens concerned about America’s rightward shift
- Anyone asking, “how did things get so bad?”