Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present
$4.95
8 June 2012 by Eric Toussaint
As the financial crisis continues to shake the global economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideological edifice long used to justify neo-liberal policies of privatization and austerity. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-experts among the 99% to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%.
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ISBN: 978-1-60846-254-4
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is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of World Bank: A Critical History, London, Pluto, 2023, Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
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Other publications in English :
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Who are the CADTM ? What is Illegitimate debt ? An ABC
28 October 2025 - Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot -
The World Bank A Critical History
3 July 2023 - Eric Toussaint -
Africa : the debt trap and how to get out of it
27 March 2023 - CADTM -
Greece 2015: There was an alternative
6 October 2020 - Eric Toussaint -
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