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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /462/ Blame Carter ft. Tim Barker
Description: On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism.
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Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former president's life and legacy.
What do people get wrong about Carter? Was Carter, not Reagan, the start of neoliberalism?
How is Carter's much-admired 'decency' of a piece with his neoliberalism?
What is 'austerity' and how does it relate to questions of public and private, vice and virtue?
What was the alternative to the neoliberal pivot in the late 1970s?
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