@mehrsab.bsky.social, Professor of Law at @ucirvine.bsky.social, is the newest addition to our Forward Thinkers list. A leading expert on financial law and inequality, she has shaped key policy discussions on banking access and the racial wealth gap. See the full list: bit.ly/42hWWWt #PS30

I'm so honored to be on this list!

To mark 30 years of Project Syndicate, we are proud to launch the #PS30 Forward Thinkers list. Over the coming weeks, we will introduce 30 individuals who are reshaping our understanding of politics, economics, technology, sustainability, and more.

NYC friends, I'll be speaking about The Quiet Coup at the NY Historical Society with Khalil Gibran Muhammad on March 31st! www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...

The neoliberal myth making has been working across the board of the establishment for decades, MAGA is its natural result. The Quiet Coup is not so quiet anymore. Read that book and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social

This EO also targets the Minority Business Development Agency. As @mehrsab.bsky.social shows, the agency was started by Nixon as a way to undermine calls for Black Power and had a small budget and little overall economic impact. The neosegregationists are removing integration's fig leaves.

Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social’s paper “Jim Crow Credit” is cited in @newrepublic.com, highlighting how historical racial discrimination in credit practices has perpetuated financial exclusion for Black communities. newrepublic.com/article/1920...

Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social talks to Hal Singer and Darren Bush about her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America." Buy the book, and watch/listen to the podcast. www.thesling.org/video/slings...

“Let the sharks roam free. What could go wrong?” Everything, it turns out. If you haven’t read The Quiet Coup, run to it (and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social later.) #AmericaKkkrashing #Photography #NaturePhotography #Swans The swan, 2024.

The formalist court that enabled a complete, and utterly immoral, neoliberal coup gets what it deserves (thx @mehrsab.bsky.social for enlightening me.)

thank you

Useful perspective from my @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social colleague

A thought, provoking and important message of hope. If you need a little jolt of inspiration, watch this video by @mehrsab.bsky.social

One of the most infuriating things I learned from @mehrsab.bsky.social's The Quiet Coup is that California's power company used CBA to determine their most profitable course of action re: worn out/dangerous power lines was to impose occasional deadly blackouts instead of fixing the fire hazard.

With @mehrsab.bsky.social: we talked about the rise of neoliberalism during the unrest of the `60s, the growth of a cancerous war machine, and how the most cited legal scholar ever assumed people who drink Mountain Dew are rational. skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-cance...

“It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes.” For @lpeblog.bsky.social, I wrote about @mehrsab.bsky.social’s “The Quiet Coup” and what we talk about when we talk about #neoliberalism. @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/can-neo...

Today, @henrymjtonks.bsky.social reviews @mehrsab.bsky.social's *The Quiet Coup,* an account of the neoliberal era that touches on everything from empire to civil rights to campaign finance and antitrust.

As 2024 draws to a close, the need for an economy that truly works for American families couldn’t be clearer. Here are twelve smart, solutions-focused, myth-busting books from the last twelve months that might help us all move closer to a just economy: www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...

Yay!!!

I taught a large 1L contracts course at Harvard this year that had 5 or fewer Black and Latino students. It was jarring and uncomfortable and totally unnecessary. The UC's have been dealing with an AA ban for years and still create diverse classes. HLS can do better. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

From memoirs to podcasts to novels - our editors share their favourite reads in our favourite annual tradition. As we reflect on 2024, may you find radical hope in their pages. www.historyworkshop....

What a fantastic talk about @mehrsab.bsky.social ‘s “spooky” - and compelling and important - new book, The Quiet Coup!

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

My spooky Halloween talk at the Kennedy Center: youtu.be/5Rbvw7L3s9M?...

Why hasn't there been a massive blockbuster about Harriet Tubman yet? I mean, I know the answer, but Jesus, she's the only certifiable American hero!

My 17-yr old daughter driving on the freeway the other day: I don't understand why people go slow when you can go fast. When the apple falls right next to the tree and the tree wishes it'd fallen a bit further away--like into the slow lane.

Happy to see all my old friends again

Re: Scott Turner’s nomination to lead HUD, “opportunity zones” are economic policies beloved by Republicans and Democrats that have been tried for 50+ years now… and never really worked. But don’t take my word for it, read @mehrsab.bsky.social’s Op-Ed from 2019:

Repost with your 5 favorite books of the year. ‘Opus’ by @garethgore.bsky.social ‘Brothers’ by Alex Van Halen ‘Sociopath’ by @patricgagne.com ‘The Quiet Coup’ by @mehrsab.bsky.social ‘Vulture Capitalism’ by @graceblakeley.bsky.social

Housing is really the key. Things didn't get biblical politically speaking until after 2008 2010. Read The Quiet Coup too by @mehrsab.bsky.social How bad have they been screwing since I was born.

On the birth of the liberal world order and the development of free market capitalism. (From Blood and Money, McNalley)

OMG. I'm so honored!!! I'm reading Blood and Money by McNalley

Caro needs to cough up book 5 like ASAP. It's only fair. I need distraction.

This is what's happening over there in case anyone has FOMO

The sad thing is that our society rewards these hungry ghosts with its highest honors

Is anyone waffling between: OMG how did the idiots win?! & because we're the idiots who totally deserve to lose.

Oh this is where we do that too? Sweet. Let's go. I'm volunteering to head up the revolution's efficiency committee

Was very skeptical about this place but damn, what if this is the new and better crack for us politics junkies? Just when I was about to decide not to care anymore.

So happy this guy's here too. We should make a shadow cabinet on here.

Thank you. Big IF tho

Every cabinet pick is an lol/holy shit

Efficiency is the perfect bullshit word to have come out of neoliberalism

Y'all the way I docusign contracts in less than a minute--my 1Ls would be appalled!!!! Appalled.

My talk at Harvard Law about my new book: youtu.be/l_bfYNMccnI?...

The week in review: @mehrsab.bsky.social on neoliberalism’s unlikely victors, Angela Harris on the assault on academic freedom, and David Boehm and Lynn Ta on the forgotten promise of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Plus, upcoming events, CFPs, and the best new LPE writing from around the interwebs!

Today, @mehrsab.bsky.social argues that neoliberalism was a rearguard movement against the expansion of democratic rights, and one whose victory was anything but certain. The latest entry in our series on Melinda Cooper's *Counterrevolution.* lpeproject.org/blog/the-unl...