Kate Yoon

Sep 12, 2024 | thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Kate Yoon

Books & the Arts / A conversation with Melinda Cooper about the recent history of neoliberalism and her new book Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Ad PolicyOver the last decade, the history of neoliberalism has received a great deal of attention, from David Harvey’s Marxist interpretation in A Brief History of Liberalism to Quinn Slobodian’s Globalist, which sees neoliberalism arising from the ruins of Europe’s fallen empires.

Sep 12, 2024 | msn.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Kate Yoon

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Apr 23, 2024 | lpeproject.org | Vincent Bevins |Kate Yoon

In If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, Vincent Bevins chronicles the protests that erupted across the globe from 2010 to 2020. Fueled by viral images on social media and democratic, horizontalist ideals, millions of people marched on the streets to demand change.

Feb 27, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Kate Yoon

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade WorldMarc-William PalenPrinceton University Press, $35 (cloth)To many today, the idea that free trade brings peace looks like bygone naïveté at best and neoliberal apologism at worst. Contrary to the aspirations of the late twentieth-century free trade moment, history—much less war—did not end with the expansion of global trade.