Saturday, March 6, 2021

How Law Made Neoliberalism — Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Longish but important. Neoliberalism as the basis of a socio-economic systems is grounded in law rather than economics and in a democracy, the law can be changed to suit conditions. 

The authors argue that it's high time to make changes in legal thinking to recognize and deal with power before the adverse consequences overwhelm society and unravel the social fabric even further.

While the article doesn't mention it explicitly, the United States is becoming ungovernable.

Boston Review
How Law Made Neoliberalism
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal

And neoliberalism is not even based on good economics.

Lars P. Syll’s Blog
The problem of reductionism in economics

The permanent income hypothesis
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University

Geoff Davies

Nor it just law. It's also narrative promoting false ideas and fake news. The narrative has to be changed to reflect reality, too.

CaitlinJohnstone.com
The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone

Moon of Alabama
‘Shia Backed’, ‘Iran Backed’ Nonsense And Other Warmongering Journalism

3 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Change the law to increase censorship, and to provide law enforcement with extra tools.
Other than that, stay the course.

p.s. For those jurisdictions that haven't gotten round to it, dismantle democracy.

Peter Pan said...

Retired US Army Lt. General Russel Honore is a keeper. One of the "few good men".

You guys are going down hard, hope we Canucks can seal the border.

Peter Pan said...

Policies are prescriptive, laws are descriptive.