The Quiet Coup

“Dangerous times call for bold interventions. Baradaran’s latest book pulls no punches. Reframing neoliberalism as a legal and political heist engineered by the forces of reaction, she shows us how it has brought us to the brink of fascism. And how we might pull back from the edge. Baradaran is analytically devastating and politically galvanizing.” – Melinda Cooper, author of Family Values“The Quiet Coup demonstrates how powerful interests under the guise of a ‘free market’ were able to rig the laws and regulations in order to capture and loot from the U.S. economy. The irony is that neoliberalism did the very opposite of making markets more ‘free’ and government less ‘active.’ What’s more, the neoliberal coup itself stemmed from deep within the same bureaucracy it purported to dismantle. Mehrsa Baradaran has done it again—her rigor, receipts, and insights distinguish her as an unsurpassed public intellectual.” – Darrick Hamilton, founding director, Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, The New School”[A]n impassioned, expansive consideration of the particular brand of free-market capitalism linked to Milton Friedman and (wrongly) labelled ‘neoliberalism’.” – Libby Lewis - The Times Literary Supplement

Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine and a noted authority on banking law. The author of The Quiet Coup, The Color of Money, and How the Other Half Banks, she has advised U.S. senators and congresspeople on policy and spoken at national and international forums including the World Bank. She lives in San Clemente, California.