Gary Gerstle speaks about his newest book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: American and the World in a Free Market Era. Gary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States speaking and writing on issues of American politics, immigration, and inequality.
His new book tracks the history of neoliberal ideology and policy from neoliberalism’s ascent under Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton through its fragmentation and decline in the tumultuous decade following the Great Recession, when Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders came to dominate American politics.