GEOG 122 Lecture 29: 29-Europe After the 2nd World War
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29: europe after the second world war. Rigging the past is the oldest form of knowledge control. It is simple democratic prudence to ensure that the citizenry are historically informed . Fall of communism represented the victory of the market. Cold war: battle between communism and liberalism. History can"t be understood by ideological artefacts anymore. Soviet-style communism appeared to demonstrate the futility of attempting to organize complex societies according to an ideological system. Margaret thatcher (tina: british prime minister, there is no alternative". While the market has been around for a long time, it has only gone global since around 1980. Milton friedman: university of chicago, avid free marketer. Karl polanyi: the great transformation (1944: for the market to be sustained, it must be embedded in social and cultural institutions. If it becomes dis-embedded , it is not sustainable producing crisis: markets are in constant tension with society, both requiring the social but always trying to escape from it.
