This paper examines the underlying class dynamics of current political-economic policymaking at the global level, with a view to laying bare the class politics of mainstream market-oriented analysis. To this end, we read the texts of leading economists and policy-makers whose work has been highly influential in the formation of government policy in North America and Western Europe as a guide to the politics of economic restructuring, and to determine how class analysis and even class antagonism are embedded in — and indeed constitutive of — the theoretical and political discourses of high-level policy-makers and advisors.
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