Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

by Philip Mirowski

Book Overview

At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity are as strong as ever. Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is the definitive account of the wreckage of what passes for economic thought,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781683026
• ISBN13: 9781781683026
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"