Money Quote by David Harvey

“Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time—it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are…

— Noam Chomsky

“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s single most damaging legacy: the realization of its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one another that…

— Naomi Klein

“At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as…

— Noam Chomsky

Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this way, the…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

“Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old prosperity is…

— Chris Hedges

Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as…

— David Harvey

“In a way, finance was even better than art. It was nothing but an expression of potential, of power, of our present moment in…

— Jade Chang

Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.

— Mark Fisher

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

— David Harvey

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

“There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were…

— Amadeo Bordiga

“until the late twentieth century—the scarce resource in business was financial capital. If you had it, you had the means to create more wealth,…

— Geoff Colvin