Like, Roosevelt broke up monopolies, for instance. That stuff was insufficient, but it was SOMETHING. Unlike now, where they just let capitalists do whatever they want.
Like, Roosevelt broke up monopolies, for instance. That stuff was insufficient, but it was SOMETHING. Unlike now, where they just let capitalists do whatever they want.
It was from a paragraph in Inventing the Future by Srnicek and Williams. And I slightly misremembered. It wasn't the wall, it was the entire blockade that kicked off the Cold War:
The source 33 they cite is: Peck, Constructions of Neoliberal Reason, p. 57. Here is the relevant information from that:
Eventually Erhard had to eat shit and move back to a socdem approach (his Wikipedia page has info on this and his connections to Mont Pelerin).
Thanks so much for the detailed explanation. Really interesting stuff.