![]() ![]() Even Peck ( Citation2013), skeptical of a one-way, diffusional model of neoliberalism, and indeed of a univocal story of the ‘Chicago school’ itself, still foregrounds the school of thought in narrating the rise of neoliberalism. ![]() For many critical scholars (Harvey Citation2005, Klein Citation2008), the story of the last 50 years is a story dominated by the intellectual leadership of Chicago-school ‘neoliberal’ economics. MacLean’s work can be situated within scholarship contending with ‘neoliberalism’ broadly defined, but with a different accent. It was back in the state of Virginia that the alliance with Charles Koch solidified, bringing a billionaire’s money and unrelenting political fervency to Buchanan’s intellectual program. The author follows Buchanan’s career across the country, beginning at the University of Virginia, briefly at Virginia Tech, tumultuously at UCLA, and portentously at George Mason. MacLean traces the spread – albeit crucially, not a popularization – of American economist James Buchanan’s ‘public choice theory’ as an organizing principle of contemporary conservatism. ![]() ![]() For those dizzied by the speed and apparent capriciousness of right-wing politics over the past decade, Nancy MacLean discovers a unifying logic to both the assaults on the gains that social movements have made and the democratic institutions that have historically secured those rights. ![]()
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