Gary Gerstel provides a sweeping re-interpretation of the entire era -from the revival of market liberalism in the 1970s to the ruin generated by the 2008 global financial crisis - that places America at the center. Gerstle contends that the largely negative conventional wisdom misses the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview exerted such persuasive hold on both right and left for so long.
Shortlisted for the 2022 FT Business Book of the Year Award.