AFTER 2008 : market fundamentalism at the crossroads

dc.contributor.authorHart, Keith
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-02T09:22:33Z
dc.date.available2019-10-02T09:22:33Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractI 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.departmentAnthropology and Archaeologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://journal.culanth.org/index.php/caen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHart, K 2018, 'AFTER 2008 : market fundamentalism at the crossroads', Cultural Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 536-546.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0886-7356 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1548-1360 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.14506/ca33.4.03
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/71529
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAmerican Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.rights© American Anthropological Association 2018.en_ZA
dc.subjectSchadenfreudeen_ZA
dc.subjectEconomic painen_ZA
dc.subjectNeoliberal globalizationen_ZA
dc.subjectWestern imperial powersen_ZA
dc.titleAFTER 2008 : market fundamentalism at the crossroadsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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