by
Owen Jones
a slogan refering to globalization popularised by Margaret Thatcher; means that the market economy is the only system that works, and that debate about this is over
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The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society.
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The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society.
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6 years, 7 months ago
Overton window
(en)
(also known as the window of discourse) the range of ideas the public will accept; used by media pundits; derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton (1960–2003),[3] a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
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my deep attraction to the idea of the 'Overton Window', a concept invented by US conservatives to describe what is deemed politically possible at any given time
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my deep attraction to the idea of the 'Overton Window', a concept invented by US conservatives to describe what is deemed politically possible at any given time
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6 years, 7 months ago
Mont Pelerin Society
(en)
an economic think tank espousing neoliberalism (Milton Friedman, Hayek, etc); founded in 1947
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With the stage set for a generational struggle in defence of an increasingly besieged free-market capitalism, the Mont Pèlerin Society was born.
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With the stage set for a generational struggle in defence of an increasingly besieged free-market capitalism, the Mont Pèlerin Society was born.
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lachrymose
(en)
(adjective) given to tears or weeping; tearful / (adjective) tending to cause tears; mournful
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George Osborne, the Chancellor, had painted a lachrymose picture of the 'shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits'
what he's really saying is that the idea of people on benefits disrupts the dominant ideology of work being something you need to do to live lmao
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6 years, 7 months ago
George Osborne, the Chancellor, had painted a lachrymose picture of the 'shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits'
what he's really saying is that the idea of people on benefits disrupts the dominant ideology of work being something you need to do to live lmao
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6 years, 7 months ago
Washington Consensus
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a set of 10 economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, D.C.–based institutions like the IMF and the World Bank (in a nutshell, neoliberalism); term first used in 1989 by English economist John Williamson
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The US once enjoyed near-hegemony over Latin America, a position initially enshrined by the 1823 Monroe Doctrine and, in modern times, the so-called 'Washington Consensus'.
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The US once enjoyed near-hegemony over Latin America, a position initially enshrined by the 1823 Monroe Doctrine and, in modern times, the so-called 'Washington Consensus'.
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6 years, 7 months ago
bulwark
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(noun) defensive wall
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The International Monetary Fund has long been a bulwark of international neo-liberalism
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The International Monetary Fund has long been a bulwark of international neo-liberalism
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