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The Capital Order How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Clara E. Mattei

A For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social a...

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

The hosts introduced the author as a professor of economics and highlighted the book as central to her research on the origins of neoclassical economics. They praised it as a great work that informs her analysis of capitalism and labor, noting its importance for understanding economic history.

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Episode: One Big Beautiful Econ Con?

The hosts introduced Clara Matei as the author of The Capital Order and later highlighted the book as central to her research on the origins of neoclassical economics. The book was praised as a great work that informs her analysis of capitalism and labor.

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Clara Matei, professor of economics at the university of Tulsa, executive director of free, the forum for real economic emancipation, author of the capital order.

In my own historical work and my book, The Capital Order, this is all I've been doing is looking at the origins of neoclassical economics, mainstream economics, to understand how it came into being in the moment in which people were saying, you know, value comes from us.

Clara Matei, professor of economics, University of Tulsa, the executive director of FREE, the forum for real economic emancipation, author of The Capital Order. It's a great book.

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