It requires a willingness to contend with political choices, choices about resource distribution and priorities at every level. That runs up against the prevalent desire of the last forty years to avoid precisely that, to depoliticize, to use markets or the law to avoid such decisions.42 This is the basic thrust behind what is known as neoliberalism, or the market revolution—to depoliticize distributional issues, including the very unequal consequences of societal risks, whether those be due to structural change in the global division of labor, environmental damage, or disease.43
