(Quoted with permission, email from Chuck Spinney.)
"This is one of the best critiques on neo-liberalism as an extreme ideology that I have read. It is long but well worth the investment in your time.
On a personal note, I have long been offended by the neo-liberal hijacking of F.A. Hayek’s ideas, especially those on the relationship of central planning to the limits of information, which fit my studies of the Pentagon's decision-making pathologies like a hand fits a glove. Neo-liberals, led by Milton Freedman, have twisted them into an uber capitalist, free-market, quasi-religious dogma. Lehmann’s essay is an admirable evisceration of that extremism."
CHRIS LEHMANN, [from The Baffler No. 24, 2014]
