Philip Mirowski

Philip Mirowski is a professor in the History and Philosophy of Science program at the University of Notre Dame. His latest book, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, will be published by Verso in June 2013.


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How Did The Neoliberals Pull It Off?

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude—melancholy sadness—towards it. This attitude is not correct. —Donald Barthelme, “The Rise of Capitalism” I have just surfaced from immersion in a small sea of newly released books, all with one concern: […]