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With the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren't college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is government completely inept in the face of natural disasters? And why do pundits tell us that the economy is strong even though the majority of Americans can barely make ends meet? In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran argues that the system is in fact rigged toward the powerful, though it wasn't the work of evil puppet masters behind the curtain. Rather, the rigging was carried out by (mostly) law-abiding lawyers, judges, regulators, policy makers, and lobbyists. Adherents of a market-centered doctrine called neoliberalism, these individuals, over the course of decades, worked to transform the nation--and succeeded. Some have claimed that the neoliberal era is behind us. Baradaran shows that such thinking is misguided. Neoliberalism is a failed economic idea--it doesn't, in fact, create more wealth or more freedom. But it has been successful nevertheless, by seizing the courts and enabling our age of crypto fraud, financial instability, and accelerating inequality. An original account of the forces that have brought us to this dangerous moment in American history, The Quiet Coup reshapes our understanding of the recent past and lights a path toward a better future.

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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 US senators and congresspeople on policy and spoken at national and international forums including the World Bank. She lives in San Clemente, California. Seena Ghaznavi grew up in an Iranian household where politics was frequently discussed. At eighteen, he started doing comedy with a political angle. Despite success in comedy, he went to law school but later realized he didn't want to practice law. Instead, he wanted to make the world easier to understand, so he took up producing digital art and hosting shows like TakePart Live and guesting on iHeart Radio and SiriusXM. Currently, he is the executive producer of Zerocool, a production company that seeks to create emotionally intelligent production environments that champion the work of creatives in any medium. He is also the host of Fraudsters on the Last Podcast Network, distributed by Stitcher, and he is a frequent cohost on the Karen Hunter Show on SiriusXM.

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