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On President Jimmy Carter’s responsibility for neoliberalism.
Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former president’s life and legacy.
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What do people get wrong about Carter? Was Carter, not Reagan, the start of neoliberalism?
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How is Carter’s much-admired ‘decency’ of a piece with his neoliberalism?
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What is ‘austerity’ and how does it relate to questions of public and private, vice and virtue?
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What was the alternative to the neoliberal pivot in the late 1970s?
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How did the appointment of Fed chairman Volcker change the entire world?
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Did Carter set the script for the Democrats, of being ‘noble losers’ (but actually on the side of the winners)?
Links:
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Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024, Tim Barker, Origins of Our Time
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On neoliberalism and the Cold War: /276/ Broken Promises ft. Fritz Bartel
Other biographical/obituary episodes:
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