Counterrevolution

“With the new organization of economic life that Counterrevolution charts … and in opposition to end-times narratives of decline, Cooper asks us to consider the untapped potential within what has undoubtedly grown immeasurably—namely, the state’s capacity to tolerate and even orchestrate deficit spending when it is deemed necessary.”—Sarah Brouillette, Los Angeles Review of Books“Counterrevolution provides an exemplary history of ideas and elites, but in foregrounding the asset form with which we are most intimately connected, it also offers a crucial history of our unhappy present that makes complete sense.”—William Davies, New Statesman“Melina Cooper’s book is an engaging work, providing elements of analysis and reflection at various new methodological and interpretative levels.”—Giampaolo Conte, The Journal of European Economic History“Cooper… demonstrates that capitalism’s transformations are never merely a matter of economics, narrowly conceived, and that fiscal politics are always also moral politics.”—Katrina Forrester, London Review of Books

Melinda Cooper is Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. She is the author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism.