This book explains the history and thinking super concisely. But broadly, GOP needed a voter base that wouldn't question power of the state being handed over to private industry -- thus they won over the devoutly religious who wouldn't question anything beyond simple morality. Then beginning with Carter, and going full steam with Reagan, to escape 70's stagflation (rising inflation causing a stagnant economy) America rejected the economic theories of the preceding 40 years under Keynes and embraced slow but steady deregulation of all markets and public services, or at least everything they could, under the guise of "small government" and an ideal of the individual. Around the time of Clinton's presidency, Democrats could do nothing but sustain the cycle as Reagan had butchered much of what was previously under government ownership -- to turn the tide back would be far too costly and lose the election, as it would be a total U-turn of the country.
"Neoliberals" aren't some kind of "new liberal," exactly. It's a defined set of political and economic beliefs, based on property-relations and a fetishization of "free market politics" as a system of ethics. Please take the time to read up on it, it's real and horrible.
For example, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and Hillary Clinton can all be accurately described as neoliberal, due to the economic policy decisions they pursue.
https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283273
This talk and book by the same Professor actually gives a real representation about what's happening on the ground as compared too so many biased reports about China in Africa.
https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Gift-Story-China-Africa/dp/0199606293
tl;dr: Reality is that China's involvement in Africa has greatly benefited Africans as a whole. China's doing good for Africa and for itself.
Pour ceux qui veulent en savoir plus sur les dangers de l'austérité pure, je recommande le livre de l'économiste politique Écossait Mark Blyth: <em>Austerity, the history of a dangerous idea</em>
Aussi, il existe des centaines de vidéos <em>Youtube sur Mark Blyth</em>.
Petite clarification sur ce que j'ai dit:
Ce que le Gouvernement Québécois (Libéral) a fait de bien c'est qu'il a économisé durant une période de richesse économique afin d'avoir un "coussin" pour la prochaine crise qui pourrait avoir lieu... Il faut faire de l'austérité (ou de la rigueur budgétaire) quand les choses vont bien afin d'avoir de l'argent à dépenser quand les choses vont mal pour supporter l'économie.
Bon point pour le Gouvernement Couillard et aussi bon point pour le Gouvernement de la CAQ qui n'a pas tout dépensé dans son premier budget.
You should read Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. You very cogently touched on a lot of the social issues that arise out of traditional suburban development. For me this book was like a religious experience, putting words and names to things I have long felt but never described.
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells perhaps offers some reasons for us to care. I'm about 2/3 of the way through listening to it on audio. It's blunt and harsh and not an easy listen/read in some places. But people need to hear it in that form.
In speaking about neoliberalism, David Harvey argues that neoconservatives needed to build their platform and did this in part by appealing to evangelical Christians. I notice that other people have asked you to consider what you mean by religious people, but I'm guessing you're speaking specifically (or at least toward) evangelical Christianity. It's complicated, but as someone who studies neoliberalism I love Harvey's marxist interpretation of the phenomena.
>1.«sortir 700M de chinois de la pauvreté» > >Un autre succès du néolibéralisme baby 😎: https://www.amazon.ca/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283273 >
'neolberalisme' ! lmao
est-ce que la nep de Lénine était du néolibéralisme pour toi aussi ?
https://www.amazon.ca/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283273
in case you want to understand why that word keeps coming up. (it explained why a trump like figure rising to power was inevitable, while being released in 2007 which is kind of neat)
There's a Marxist called David Harvey who's been pushing that angle. He has a degree in geography but he's the expert on neoliberalism according to Breadtube.
People see his book and they're like "see, the word on the book says 'neoliberalism' and there's a picture of Ronald Reagan right there!"
C'est le nom kitsch pour néo-libéralisme.
Je pense que les gens sont assez réducteurs et assigne le style de Trump aux politiciens qui font les cons sur les réseaux sociaux. La réalité, je pense, est que Trump et ses imitateurs sont le résultat découlant d'une politique initialisée il y as plus de 50 ans d'ici. Je conseille de lire le livre lié un peu plus haut.
Neoliberalism understood by scholars pretty much just refers to a larger trend towards economic liberalization, rather than a specific set of policies. This is why is the ideology as popularly understood can encompass political figures ranging from Deng to Pinochet Economic liberalization like you said pretty much refers to favoring markets over government and overall increasing the role of the private sector in the economy. Austerity is somewhat related in that it accompanies this larger trend of reducing government spending but I wouldn’t really say austerity is a neoliberal thing- especially since it often accompanies raising taxes which is definitely not neoliberal.
Actually, everyone should read this, https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703. In it, the author refers to a study which showed that when cattle were fed a diet of seaweed the amount of methane they produce is reduced by a large percentage. I won't quote a number, but it was high enough to be able to keep eating meat.
Literally this. It was all farm fields back then, and Southdale was a new concept, an indoor shopping mall, the first in the nation. The idea is that they would draw people from the "cities" (minneapolis and st. paul proper) out to the new shopping center. To get there, they drove. Easy parking was achived with massive parking lots surrounding the mall. Heck, there was even a Red Owl Grocery store in the mall when it first opened. To the south was nothing but more farmland. Then they built the Metropolitan Stadium around the same time, have a look at photos of it when it was built, again, a stadium surrounded by farm fields. Today it's the Mall Of America. This all happened in the boom years right after WWII when the GI Bill paid for education and home loans, so it was a building bonanza. Most families could afford a car, so driving was fun and a new experience for many families. That's why you would build a huge mall with parking all around it.
If you are interested in urban planning and how it all went wrong in the 60's, and we are now trying to get back to what it was before then, I'd reccomend a book called "Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream" by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, & Jeff Speck. It discusses many of these design "flaws" and how we keep repeating them. One of the worst among the flaws, cul-de-sacs! How I hate them!
Soupir. Ok. Je te propose de lire. J'ai pas l'impression que c'est l'activité préférée de l'électeur conservateur moyen toutefois, mais essaye: https://www.amazon.ca/Confessions-Recovering-Civil-Engineer-Transportation/dp/1119699290/ref=asc_df_1119699290/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459616255919&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16696851648254931926&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000386&hvtargid=pla-1187958944116&psc=1
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Ça explique POURQUOI les propositions de Duhaime en lien avec les automobiles sont absolument totalement indiscutablement IMBÉCILES.
Dude. There’s probably only recreational paths here, the German suburbs are all quite walkable. These are not because the only pleasurable way to walk, without the cars going 65 kph, is by taking back roads. Also, I’m basing my argument on the data presented in Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr..
The US suburbs need actual bike infrastructure otherwise you have to deal with walking over 30 minutes down a main stroad without any walking paths.
You're the one without a clue. The reason they died out is because they were deliberately killed off because it was more profitable for banks, the oil and auto industries not because they weren't effective.
If you don't want to believe me, maybe some civil engineers telling you how car-centric transportation sucks ass and needs to change will help.
They are the futon of Civil Engineering, Chuck Marohn Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town.
has a section on the failure of pedestrian only streets.
I recommend checking out Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles Marohn. The current, poor, dangerous designs came from the minds of engineers that were solely concerned about traffic flow. Computer simulations will never correctly replicate real-life scenarios.
Thanks for the shout-out. I have an engineering degree, but in a different field (materials). At my alma mater, CS was very high status, but it was a different kind of high status than engineering. The highest status department was still mechanical engineering. (But that's probably because I went to a dedicated engineering school, and not an "everything" university.)
> The best-of-the-best, I'm told, do not go into civil engineering any more.
Correct. Civil engineering is the lowest paid engineering discipline. It is mostly about infrastructure (roads, bridges, drainage systems), and not as much about buildings. So it attracts people who care a lot about the public policy around big, flashy infrastructure projects, versus people who just want to build cutting edge stuff for its own sake.
The elite engineers who just want to build cool stuff are out building robots and rockets, not bridges.
If you'd like a more in-depth look at the "public policy first, build stuff second" attitude in civil engineering, I'd recommend the new Strong Towns book, <em>Confessions of a Recovering Engineer.</em>
I really think everyone should pick up this book
https://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-American/dp/0865477507
or ya know get the free ebook from your library or something. it's a great read
I’d really recommend the book Suburban Nation. It’s about 20 years old but more relevant than ever.
It’s a subtle online as a pirated ebook but I can’t find the link so here’s the Amazon link
https://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-American/dp/0865477507
The IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is a good resource. It’s the collection of the best data and science we have. It’s long but it’s broken into sections. I also like the book The Uninhabitable Earth It is based on the science we have and lays out the changes to human life we will likely experience in the next 100 years due to climate change.
Strong Towns is great. They did a really good job of simplifying our problems with transportation in their recent Confessions of a Recovering Engineer book. I hope they continue to gain momentum. The fact that we're talking about them here is probably a good sign.
The guy with the website is also a civil engineer with a career in road design. He wrote a whole book about some of the failings of auto-centric street design and what needs to change. The whole point is that maximizing vehicle traffic speeds on streets leads to unsafe streets and dysfunctional street life. Trying to put lots of intersections and driveways on roads similarly leads to reduced utility of the road as a thing that connects places via high speed travel and also makes it unsafe.
The book is called Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (amazon link)
look buddy, there's already a term for those, it's called "champagne socialist". i get that you don't like them, but words have meanings, and the word "neoliberal" has a definition too.
i would suggest reading this book: A Brief History of Neoliberalism
if reading is too much of a chore, then just look at the portraits on the dust cover.
Ronald Reagan
Deng Xiaoping
Augusto Pinochet
Margaret Thatcher
their supporters are not going to be donating patreonbux to Hasan Piker.
> is it right to say that as a working class person fiscal conservatism is the worst possible thing to happen for me?
from what I know its not great for anyone but the rich. Bezos wouldn't have flown to space for the luls without it and its why banks are now 'to big to fail'. Lots of internet people call it corporate welfare.
a good and short book explaining what current economic cons believe is 'a brief history of neoliberalism.' https://www.amazon.ca/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283273
behind the bastard does an episode on Bill Gates which kind of illustrates our global economic situation rather well.
Can not confirm nor deny .... but this short book may help you understand what we’re in for ...Future Temps after warming