Jason Furman is one of the most influential Democratic economists of the past two decades. From 2013 to 2017 he chaired President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped shape tax ...

Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape ...

Concept of neoliberalism and free market competition illustration by American flag, money and graphs. Neoliberalism is a sprawling, contentious, difficult economic and political concept that can be ...

From the 1980s up to the 2008 crash, neoliberal economic policy concepts dominated on the nationalist right, including Fidesz and PiS. One can incorporate nationalist elements into a neoliberal setup.

I’ve recently read two books that help clarify the competing sides in today’s growing intellectual debate over free trade, globalization, and neoliberalism. On one side is Trade Wars Are Class Wars ...

A 4 November 2025 Project Syndicate (PS) article ‘Adam Smith and the moral economy we have lost’ pointed out the strong moral linkage of Adam Smith’s earlier book The Theory of Moral Sentiments, with ...

Neoliberalism is a sprawling, contentious, difficult economic and political concept that can be hard to pin down because it shapes our lives in so many ways. Sometimes it can seem to describe ...