Trailer: The End of Laissez-Faire?

This academic trailer features Damien Cahill’s The End of Laissez-Faire?: On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism, which is a major intervention in debates on the ideas-centred assumptions within political economy that offers an alternative stance on the class relations, institutions, and ideology of present-day neoliberal capitalism.

The book is now available in paperback here.

Author: Damien Cahill

Damien Cahill is General Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union, the trade union that represents university workers across Australia. He is Associate Professor in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

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