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"[A]ccessible and intellectually rich...Essential reading to understand the economic state of the nation." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The celebrated legal scholar and author of The Color of Money reveals how neoliberals rigged American law, creating widespread distrust, inequality, and injustice.
Brief description: Mehrsa Baradaran is a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and the acclaimed author of The Color of Money and How the Other Half Banks. She lives in Irvine, California.
Review Quotes: The Quiet Coup demonstrates how powerful interests under the guise of a 'free market' were able to rig the laws and regulations in order to capture and loot from the U.S. economy. The irony is that neoliberalism did the very opposite of making markets more 'free' and government less 'active.' What's more, the neoliberal coup itself stemmed from deep within the same bureaucracy it purported to dismantle. Mehrsa Baradaran has done it again--her rigor, receipts, and insights distinguish her as an unsurpassed public intellectual.--Darrick Hamilton, founding director, Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, The New School