Benjamin Britton > Benjamin's Quotes

“Volcker, Reagan, Thatcher, and Deng Xaioping all took minority arguments that had long been in circulation and made them majoritarian (though in no case without a protracted struggle).”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“Volcker and Thatcher both plucked from the shadows of relative obscurity a particular doctrine that went under the name of ‘neoliberalism’ and transformed it into the central guiding principle of economic thought and management.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“With the whole world in economic recession, a new approach was called for.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“the neoliberal turn is in some way and to some degree associated with the restoration or reconstruction of the power of economic elites.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“Finance capital increasingly looked abroad for higher rates of return.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“For the elite, living comfortably in their gilded ghettos, the world must indeed seem a better place.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“a button that elites can press to open the door to the masses”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“Powerful corporations in alliance with an interventionist state were seen to be running the world in individually oppressive and socially unjust ways.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism