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Earlier this month, Thomas Fazi argued in UnHerd that the Covid crisis exposed the “folly” of applying market-based logic to every domain of human life, saying that it had shattered “practically every shibboleth in the neoliberal bible”.
Economist Julian Jessop directly refuted these claims in 1828, a neoliberal publication, describing Fazi’s shibboleths as a “series of strawmen”. On day 35 of lockdown, both joined Freddie Sayers to debate the future of the ideology in a post-Covid world. Oddly enough, they agreed that in spite of the crisis, it seems likely that neoliberalism is here to stay. Have a watch above (apologies for the patchy sound quality)…
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