NEVER LET A SERIOUS CRISIS GO TO WASTE: HOW NEOLIBERALISM SURVIVED THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
Book ID/图书代码： 13850012B57076
English Summary/英文概要： • Combative account by prominent economic historianAt the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that—post-apocalypse—we’ve woken into a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and exploding sovereign debt crises. The economics profession has weathered the crisis by pumping noise and confusion into our attempts to understand the unfolding disasters.
Philip Mirowski argues that, as in classic studies of cognitive dissonance, neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything—a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, information, markets, and government—it could no longer be falsified by mere data from the “real” economy.
In this sharp, witty and deeply informed account—taking no prisoners in his pursuit of “zombie” economists—Mirowski surveys the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, and finally provides the basis for an anti-neoliberal account of the current crisis and our future prospects.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： •来自好事的著名经济历史学家解释。
在经济大萧条发生时期，随着房价下跌，失业率飙升，许多评论家认为新自由主义本身已经在做垂死挣扎。然而，似乎如同文章启示的那样，我们在比第一个更可怕的噩梦里醒来：一个政治阶层仍在指责政府的干预，一个全球性的对紧缩、滞胀的推动，以及主权债务危机的爆发。经济学界通过在我们试图了解展开的危机时，把噪音和混乱灌了进来，已经安然度过了危机。
菲利普•米鲁斯基认为，随着对认知失调的经典研究，新自由主义已经变得如此普遍，以至于任何相反的证据只会进一步让门徒信服它的终极真理。一旦新自由主义成为一切事物的理论——对自我的革命性的考虑、知识、信息、市场以及政府——它已经不再是实体经济里的数据伪造了。
在这个尖锐的、机智的以及知情的解释里，米鲁斯基采取在他的追求“僵尸”里一个经济学家俘虏也没有的原则，调查了所谓的经济思想的残骸，最后，为了当前的危机和我们未来的前景，他为反新自由主义提供了一个基础的解释。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“很难想象一个历史学家而不是经济学家（像米鲁斯基），能够涵盖经济学在二十世纪后期的多样性和技术性。”——伦敦书评
“在经济学的近代史中，菲利普•米鲁斯基是当今最富想象力和挑衅性的作家。”波士顿环球报
“It is hard to imagine a historian who was not an economist (as Mirowski is) being able to encompass the economics of the second half of the twentieth century in its diversity and technicality.” London Review of Books
“Philip Mirowksi is the most imaginative and provocative writer at work today on the recent history of economics.” Boston Globe
About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利普•米鲁斯基是印第安纳州圣母院大学的关于经济思想的历史学家和哲学家。他写过很多作品，包括《科学市场》、《机器梦想以及比光更多的热量》。他也出现在亚当•柯蒂斯BBC的纪录片《陷阱》中。Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His many previous books include ScienceMart, Machine Dreams and More Heat than Light, and he appeared in Adam Curtis’s BBC documentary The Trap.
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