Part 1: Introducing the Invisible Ideology (March 2018, 26min)
Neoliberalism is an economic ideology that exists within the framework
of capitalism. Over four decades ago, neoliberalism became the dominant
economic paradigm of global society. In part 1, we'll trace the history
of neoliberalism, starting with a survey of neoliberal philosophy and
research, a historical reconstruction of the movement pushing for
neoliberal policy solutions, witnessing the damage that neoliberalism
did to its first victims in the developing world, and then charting
neoliberalism's infiltration of the political systems of the United
States and the United Kingdom. Learn how neoliberalism is generating
crises for humanity at an unprecedented rate.
Part 2: Keynesian Embedded Liberalism (September 2018, 36min)
Neoliberalism was a reaction. It was an effort to disassemble a previous
vision of society that once held sway over most of the world. In order
to understand neoliberalism, it’s important to first understand the
world before neoliberalism; the world which neoliberalism considered
unacceptable, and in need of urgent reconfiguration. In part 2, learn
about the world of embedded liberalism.
Part 3: Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society I: 1918 - 1939 (April 2019, 40min)
The story of neoliberalism is a story about the power of ideas.
Embedded liberalism was in power, but it was not without resistance.
Academics and businessmen who opposed the New Deal and British social
democracy were only begrudgingly accepting of the situation at best, or
on the warpath against government intervention in the economy at worst.
These two factions allied with one another to create an idea so powerful
that it would covertly undo their losses to embedded liberalism by
supplanting it entirely. This is where the story of neoliberalism
begins.
