Join us as Brian Judge discusses his new book and its bold reappraisal of financialization and the birth of neoliberalism. Judge examines how liberalism disavows the problem of distributive conflict, leaving it vulnerable when those conflicts erupt. When the postwar growth engine began to slow, finance promised a way out of the resulting political impasse, allowing liberal democracies to depoliticize questions of distribution and sustain the existing social and economic order. In short, financialization was both a nearly spontaneous response to a crisis within liberalism and the mechanism that allowed neoliberalism to take root.

November 14th, 2024 | 4-5:30pm | 8th floor Social Sciences Building