The Bastani Factor

Coronavirus: the Free Market Can’t Save Us

For forty years we’ve been told the free market is the answer to everything. Yet when it comes to bank bailouts, and now the Coronavirus, that logic falls apart. The truth is neoliberalism can’t deal with our biggest problems – from healthcare to climate change.

  • Published 13 March 2020

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