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 an academic and trade union activist based at the University of Sydney. His main area of research examines neoliberalism, in all its manifestations: theory, practice, history and contemporary debates. He also writes about capitalism as a social system (as distinct from orthodox economics which views the economy as separate from the state and other social institutions). Before entering academia, Damien worked variously as a shop assistant, labourer and political adviser, and spent several periods of time on the dole. He lives in Sydney with his partner and two daughters. In his free time, he runs.

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