02435cam a2200349 i 4500 1469320487 TxAuBib 20240820120000.0 240422s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024008506 9781324091165 HRD 32.50 1324091169 HRD 32.50 TxAuBib rda Baradaran, Mehrsa, 1978-, author. The quiet coup [BOOK] : neoliberalism and the looting of America / Mehrsa Baradaran. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] xli, 420 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-390) and index. "With 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 The Quiet Coup, 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. They did so by changing the law in unseen ways. 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.". 20240820. Neoliberalism United States History. Neoliberalism Social aspects. Conservatism United States History. Capitalism Political aspects United States History. Free enterprise United States. Income distribution United States. United States Economic conditions.