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Winter in America, a cultural history of neoliberalism, from the sixties to the Reagan revolution, Daniel Robert McClure

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Winter in America

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Daniel Robert McClure

a cultural history of neoliberalism, from the sixties to the Reagan revolution

Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. Resting on the fundamental premise that the free market should be unfettered by government intrusion, neoliberal policies have primarily redirected the state's prerogatives away from the postwar Keynesian welfare system and toward the insulation of finance and corporate America from democratic pressure. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, reactionary cultural turn, catalyzed their ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events discourse of the 1970s provided the space of negotiation permitting these ideas to take hold and be challenged

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