Re: The Empire’s Freedom
Dwayne Monroe wrote:
In addition to Doug’s analysis, I strongly recommend David Harvey’s “A Brief History of Neoliberalism” –
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G5A5252FB
in which this topic is addressed at some length, in a very accessible fashion, in chapter 2: ‘The Construction of Consent’.
That’s a really good book. As usual, I take issue with his predictions of disaster, but otherwise, you can’t beat it as a broad economic history of the last 25 years. The chapter on China is esp good.
Doug