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Is COVID-19 Accelerating the End of Neoliberalism?

18-5-2020 < 21st Century Wire 30 151 words
 

Governments are now spending trillions in to manage the fallout from COVID-19 crisis. But how long can this last? Is western society moving into the era of bigger government and sweeping state intervention in markets and infrastructure? Can globalization we easily unwound, and is the last four decades of ‘pro-market’ neoliberal reforms coming to end? If so, what is coming next?


The Agenda host Steve Paikin talks with Conservative economist Sean Speer, and Bhaskar Sunkara, author of “The Socialist Manifesto,” for a North American perspective on how the COVID crisis could draw government institutions away from neoliberal consensus of the last 40 years. Watch:



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