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The Dissenter · 2025-10-10 · 116 min · 16,307 words

#1161 Anna Bocca: The Origins, Spread, and Failures of Neoliberal Capitalism

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Hello everyone, welcome back to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a fellow YouTuber, Anna Bocke. She's been doing great videos on neoliberalism and many aspects related to neo- neoliberalism we're going to talk about today. So Anna, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone.

Hi, thank you for having me. I am really excited. It's like the first uh time I'm ever being on someone else's show, so kind of excited about it. Yeah, great. So let me start by asking you, I mean, because I I've talked about this on the channel with a few economists, but sometimes I hear, and I've heard this also from uh liberal people in Portugal that

neoliberalism, the term doesn't mean anything. It's just a vague term used by the left. I mean, how would you define neoliberalism or characterize it? Yeah, I mean it definitely like I've heard that critique as well um about like it not existing and just being invented by the left. But actually I do think um it's very much a thing and obviously um more cons economically conservative people

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