What Comes After the Bailout State?
Martijn Konings discusses implications of government bailouts within the neoliberal order and potential futures for the post-bailout state.
Martijn Konings works in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Development of American Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed (Stanford University Press, 2015), Neoliberalism (with Damien Cahill, Polity, 2017), and Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason (Stanford University Press, 2018). With Melinda Cooper, he edits the new Stanford University Press series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times.
Martijn Konings discusses implications of government bailouts within the neoliberal order and potential futures for the post-bailout state.
An excerpt from “The Asset Economy,” a forthcoming book from Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings.
Martijn Konings reviews Wendy Brown's new book, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West."
Neoliberal policy embraced the idea that the concern with fundamental values was of little use. What mattered was keeping the system going.