Kev and Katy wrap up this series of shows with an overview of where neoliberal government and neoliberal institutions have failed, and what we can do about it at a grassroots level.
The Heritage Foundation at Wikipedia
America’s Golden Age: A Return to the Permanent Things, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts' medieval Christian vision for the US. (Also expanded upon as a lecture on YouTube).
"Attack on American Free Enterprise System" (aka. the Powell Memorandum) at the Internet Archive
A review of Late Soviet Britain: why materialist utopias fail, by Abby Innes.
How neoliberalism broke economics, an interview with Abby Innes:
[Soviet and neoliberal economics] both operate with sort of closed system reasoning about the possibility of a completely efficient system. whether that's a completely efficient social plan or a completely efficient market. And then the dark historical joke is that they necessarily converge on the same statecraft. […The assumption is] that if you design regulations in the appropriate way, enterprises will only ever work in a way that is socially productive.
Slashing support: How the NDIS is leaving the most vulnerable behind, by friend of the show James Rozier, explaining why healthcare doesn't work like a textbook market:
So, why aren’t participants “disciplining the market” and seeking lower prices? When looking for a doctor, we tend to take the first appointment available. Then, we tend to stay with that doctor and trust their advice. These behaviours and trust relationships are particularly prevalent in healthcare. If we expect NDIS participants to drive down prices, we ignore such behavioural realities.
Pleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.
Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck.
Anne Maxwell & Kevin Gaynor
