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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order America and the World in the Free Market Era

Gary Gerstle

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, redu...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book was highlighted as the source that introduced the concept of political orders, offering a detailed history of the New Deal and neoliberal eras and their influence on American politics. Ezra Klein cited it to explain the neoliberal period’s effect on the Republican Party, and both he and Brad DeLong praised it as an excellent historical account they wished they'd had while writing their own analyses. Overall, the hosts presented it as a must‑read for understanding the rise and fall of the neoliberal order.

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Episode: Are We on the Cusp of a New Political Order?

The host introduced the book as the source of the concept of political orders, describing the New Deal and neoliberal eras and their impact on American politics.

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In his book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, this story and Gary Gerstle introduced me to this concept of political orders.

Episode: How Right-Wing Media Ate the Republican Party

The book was cited as a source for understanding the neoliberal era and its impact on the Republican Party.

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You can see it in books like Gary Griswold's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order.

Episode: Inflation Does More Than Raise Prices. It Destroys...

The hosts praised Gerstle's work as an excellent history of the New Deal/Neoliberal order and noted the author wished he had owned it while writing his own chapter.

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Gary Gerstle in his excellent book The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, or the neoliberal order, prefers to call it the New Deal Order.

Gary Gerstle published his The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, which is a book I really wished that I would have had while writing the neoliberal turn chapter because it would have made it better and stronger and would have made me smarter.

Episode: The End of 'The Everything Bubble'

Rana described it as an instant classic that synthesizes half a century of neoliberalism, financialization and globalization, asking what it meant and where it is taking us.

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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order ... is an instant classic. He looks at a lot of what we've just been talking about, this half century of neoliberalism, financialization, globalization, pulling them together.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

It was mentioned that international trade peaked in 2008, and then fell after the Great Recession, never reaching pre-crash levels again, which was before Trump took office.

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21st century globalization, in other words, may have crested and begun to recede before Trump took office.

— Episode: 6/23/22: War Sanctions, GOP Primaries, U...

Episode: 6/23/22: War Sanctions, GOP Primaries, Uvalde Cove...

It was mentioned that international trade peaked in 2008, and then fell after the Great Recession, never reaching pre-crash levels again, which was before Trump took office.

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21st century globalization, in other words, may have crested and begun to recede before Trump took office.

Episode: 6/23/22: War Sanctions, GOP Primaries, Uvalde Cove...

It was mentioned that global trade had peaked in 2008, and that it had never returned to the pre-crash levels, suggesting that globalization was already waning before Trump took office.

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21st century globalization, in other words, may have crested and begun to recede before Trump took office.

Episode: 6/23/22: War Sanctions, GOP Primaries, Uvalde Cove...

It was mentioned that global trade peaked in 2008 and has never fully recovered to pre-crash levels, suggesting a decline in the neoliberal order before Trump's presidency.

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21st century globalization, in other words, may have crested and begun to recede before Trump took office.

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