On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism.

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Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former president's life and legacy.

• What do people get wrong about Carter? Was Carter, not Reagan, the start of neoliberalism?
• How is Carter's much-admired 'decency' of a piece with his neoliberalism?
• What is 'austerity' and how does it relate to questions of public and private, vice and virtue?
• What was the alternative to the neoliberal pivot in the late 1970s?
• How did the appointment of Fed chairman Volcker change the entire world?
• Did Carter set the script for the Democrats, of being 'noble losers' (but actually on the side of the winners)?

Links:

• Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024, Tim Barker, Origins of Our Time
• Weapons of the Week newsletter
• On neoliberalism and the Cold War: /276/ Broken Promises ft. Fritz Bartel

Other biographical/obituary episodes: * Silvio Berlusconi: An Oral History * /293/ Goodbye 20th Century (RIP Gorby) * /410/ Reading Club: Deutscher's Stalin * /435/ Reading Club: Stalin's General – Winning WWII