The Role of Coercion in the Neoliberal Economy
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
10-21-2024
Publisher
The Law and Political Economy Project
Language
en-US
Abstract
In Melinda Cooper’s narrative of extravagance and austerity in public finance, one of the most powerful organizing forces on austerity-side of the ledger were the taxpayers who rebelled against the U.S. government’s rather modest efforts at redistribution in the 1960s and 1970s. From Sacramento to Washington D.C., conservative strategists exploited white anxieties about economic uncertainty and white hostilities to demographic shifts in America’s cities to push through a series of popular referenda that fundamentally altered the state’s power to tax.
Recommended Citation
Zohra Ahmed,
The Role of Coercion in the Neoliberal Economy
,
LPE Project Blog
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/274
Publisher URL
https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-role-of-coercion-in-the-neoliberal-economy/
