Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
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永远不要让一场严重的危机白白浪费：新自由主义如何在金融危机中幸存下来
DOI：
10.5860/choice.51-1602
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Philip Mirowski
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作者：
Philip Mirowski
在大衰退开始时，随着房价下跌和失业率飙升，许多评论员认为新自由主义本身正在垂死挣扎。然而，在世界末日之后，我们似乎已经进入了比第一场更可怕的第二场噩梦：政治阶层仍然指责政府干预、全球紧缩、滞胀和爆发的主权债务危机。经济学专业通过给我们理解正在展开的灾难的努力注入噪音和困惑，安然度过了这场危机。菲利普·米洛夫斯基认为，就像在认知不和谐的经典研究中一样，新自由主义思想已经变得如此普遍，任何相反的证据都只会进一步说服信徒们相信它的终极真理。一旦新自由主义成为一种万物理论--一种对自我、知识、信息、市场和政府的革命性描述--它就不再能再被来自“实体”经济的单纯数据所证伪。在这本犀利、机智、见多识广的书中，米洛夫斯基考察了被认为是经济思想的残骸，并最终为一篇关于当前危机和我们未来前景的反新自由主义的书提供了基础。
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that - post-apocalypse - we've woken into a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and exploding sovereign debt crises. The economics profession has weathered the crisis by pumping noise and confusion into our attempts to understand the unfolding disasters. Philip Mirowski argues that, as in classic studies of cognitive dissonance, neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything - a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, information, markets, and government - it could no longer be falsified by mere data from the "real" economy. In this sharp, witty and deeply informed account - taking no prisoners in his pursuit of "zombie" economists - Mirowski surveys the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, and finally provides the basis for an anti-neoliberal account of the current crisis and our future prospects.