What comes after neoliberalism?
Simon Mohun, an economist who has done much work to analyse recent developments using Marx’s concept of capitalistically-unproductive labour, and emeritus professor of economics at Queen Mary University of London, talked with Martin Thomas. When we talked in 2009 , I said that the financial crisis of 2008 marked the end of neoliberalism. I think I was right about that. I was far too sanguine in thinking that neoliberal economics and neoliberal politics would run on parallel tracks. Politically, there’s been very little difference. But the economic model is bust, and that manifests itself in a...