#126 - Gary Gerstle - The Iran War Is Ending The Global Economy As We Know It & What Comes Next

About this episode

Gary Gerstle discusses the collapse of the neoliberal order and its implications for the future of the West.

Gary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and the author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order — one of the most clarifying accounts written of how a set of economic assumptions came to dominate Western politics, and how they are now collapsing. He is currently Kluge Chair of American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress, working on his next book, Politics in Our Time: Authoritarian Peril and Democratic Hope in the Twenty...

People in this episode

Host: John Gillam

Guest: Gary Gerstle

Topics covered

• neoliberalism
• Western politics
• economic assumptions
• democracy
• authoritarianism

Keywords

• neoliberal order
• Gary Gerstle
• American history
• politics
• democratic hope

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Cambridge, Library of Congress

Books & works: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Politics in Our Time: Authoritarian Peril and Democratic Hope in the Twenty

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