Alex Himelfarb
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 NEW! Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s ChallengeWhat It Will Take to Deal with American Decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis |
Neoliberalism arrived in Ottawa with the Mulroney government in 1984, and has continued as widely accepted common sense about government until today. Neoliberalism’s basic tenets – … | Alex Himelfarb | 184 | 2024 | View |
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From NEW! Introduction |
In the Introduction, the author explains the impetus for writing this book and how it became clear that the ideology of neoliberalism lay at the root of the persistent inability to address the … | Alex Himelfarb | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Interregnum and the Birth of Neoliberalism |
This chapter outlines the origins of neoliberalism and the key ideas of this philosophy as well as tracing its resurgence beginning in the 1980s after decades of disfavour. | Alex Himelfarb | 36 | 2024 | $3.60 Add |
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From NEW! Neoliberal PoliticsTransforming Conservativism |
This chapter discusses the economic conditions of the late 1970s that made Canada ripe for conservatism and the impact of the Regan and Thatcher governments on the rise of neoliberalism in Canada … | Alex Himelfarb | 20 | 2024 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Third Way PoliticsTransforming the Left |
This chapter looks at the response of liberal and left-leaning parties to conservative rule and the pragmatic strategy of the Third Way exemplified by governments such as the Clinton … | Alex Himelfarb | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! Neoliberalism Comes to Canada |
This chapter examines the arrival of neoliberal rule in Canada and factors such as the rightward orientations of regional governments in the West, the election of Brian Mulroney, policy changes … | Alex Himelfarb | 43 | 2024 | $4.30 Add |
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From NEW! The Financial Meltdown and Other Morbid Symptoms |
This chapter examines the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and movements such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street in its aftermath. | Alex Himelfarb | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Politics After the Meltdown and Then the Pandemic |
This chapter discusses the electoral success of left-leaning parties in the West the (Cameron, Obama and Trudeau governments) in response to the economic crisis and rising inequality , as well as … | Alex Himelfarb | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add |
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From NEW! Neoliberal Common SenseThe Stubborn Persistence of Neoliberalism |
This chapter looks at the persistence of neoliberalism despite financial crises and electoral change, the existence of cultural hegemony in normalizing neoliberalist policies as mere common … | Alex Himelfarb | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! Optimism of the WillThere Is an Alternative |
This chapter considers what is needed to counter neoliberalism and comments on the positive signs of the rise in union activity and the common cause of diverse grassroots movements in advocating … | Alex Himelfarb | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Taxes, Austerity, and What Trickles DownFrom: Canada after Harper |
Alex Himelfarb concludes by relating how tax cuts and other austerity measures have led to a loss of public awareness of the need for adequate tax revenue to maintain essential services — … | Alex Himelfarb | 15 | 2015 | $1.50 Add |
