AFTER 2008 : market fundamentalism at the crossroads

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dc.contributor.author Hart, Keith
dc.date.accessioned 2019-10-02T09:22:33Z
dc.date.available 2019-10-02T09:22:33Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.description.abstract I imagine that most anthropologists greeted the crash of September 2008 with a measure of schadenfreude, tempered in many cases by economic pain and anxiety. I retired from the British university system in that month and lost a third of the lump sum I was to receive. Still, it was hard to resist feeling vindicated. There are not many advocates for neoliberal globalization in our discipline and I, for one, expected the public profile of free-market economists to be substantially downgraded. A swing back toward Keynesian macroeconomics seemed the obvious remedy for the abrupt contraction in demand. It is easy enough, in retrospect, to identify what prevented these expectations from becoming reality. It is more difficult to explain why. In this short essay, I seek to place the developments of the last decade in a broad historical context, focusing on the current and former Western imperial powers: the United States, France, and Britain. In doing so, I draw mainly on sources from outside of anthropology. en_ZA
dc.description.department Anthropology and Archaeology en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2019 en_ZA
dc.description.uri https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Hart, K 2018, 'AFTER 2008 : market fundamentalism at the crossroads', Cultural Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 536-546. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0886-7356 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1548-1360 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.14506/ca33.4.03
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/71529
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology en_ZA
dc.rights © American Anthropological Association 2018. en_ZA
dc.subject Schadenfreude en_ZA
dc.subject Economic pain en_ZA
dc.subject Neoliberal globalization en_ZA
dc.subject Western imperial powers en_ZA
dc.title AFTER 2008 : market fundamentalism at the crossroads en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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