In his #AmericanProspect editorial, "What Comes After Neoliberalism?", #RobertKuttner declares "we’ve just about won the battle of ideas. Reality has been a helpful ally...Neoliberalism has been a splendid success for the top 1 percent, and an abject failure for everyone else":

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-28-what-comes-after-neoliberalism/

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Quote of the day “Corporations, though creations of the democratic state, are said by neoliberal theorists to have no reciprocal responsibility to communities or employees, only to shareholders.”

Robert Kuttner, “Fee Markets, Besieged Citizens” NYRB vol 69, no12 (21 July 2022),p12

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