{"product_id":"the-quiet-coup-neoliberalism-and-the-looting-of-america-9781324091165","title":"The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren't college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is government completely inept in the face of natural disasters? And why do pundits tell us that the economy is strong even though the majority of Americans can barely make ends meet? In \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet Coup\u003c\/em\u003e, Mehrsa Baradaran, one of our leading public intellectuals, argues that the system is in fact rigged toward the powerful, though it wasn't the work of evil puppet masters behind the curtain. Rather, the rigging was carried out by hundreds of (mostly) law-abiding lawyers, judges, regulators, policy makers, and lobbyists. Adherents of a market-centered doctrine called neoliberalism, these individuals, over the course of decades, worked to transform the nation--and succeeded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey did so by changing the law in unseen ways. Tracing this largely unknown history from the late 1960s to the present, Baradaran demonstrates that far from yielding fewer laws and regulations, neoliberalism has in fact always meant more--and more complex--laws. Those laws have uniformly benefited the wealthy. From the work of a young Alan Greenspan in creating \"Black Capitalism,\" to Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell's efforts to unshackle big money donors, to the establishment of the \"Law and Economics\" approach to legal interpretation--in which judges render opinions based on the principles of right-wing economics--Baradaran narrates the key moments in the slow-moving coup that was, and is, neoliberalism. Shifting our focus away from presidents and national policy, she tells the story of how this nation's laws came to favor the few against the many, threatening the integrity of the market and the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome have claimed that the neoliberal era is behind us. Baradaran shows that such thinking is misguided. Neoliberalism is a failed economic idea--it doesn't, in fact, create more wealth or more freedom. But it has been successful nevertheless, by seizing the courts and enabling our age of crypto fraud, financial instability, and accelerating inequality. An original account of the forces that have brought us to this dangerous moment in American history, \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet Coup\u003c\/em\u003e reshapes our understanding of the recent past and lights a path toward a better future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mehrsa Baradaran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.36w x 1.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324091165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaradaran, Mehrsa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMehrsa Baradaran\u003c\/strong\u003e is a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet Coup, The Color of Money, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow the Other Half Banks\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Irvine, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43769310740595,"sku":"9.78132E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_021b17f1-d63e-409c-b64a-9bc025187b3b.jpg?v=1757074716","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-quiet-coup-neoliberalism-and-the-looting-of-america-9781324091165","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}