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Mar 4, 2013, 11:31:28 AM3/4/13
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Hello, all!
Just wanted to let you know I have a new piece up today at the Baffler (out in print April 9) on the uneasy links between Milton Friedman, Nick Kristof, and PBS, and what they mean for the global economic condition of women:
"The girders of our modern political, economic, and cultural structure can be seen clearly in a nicely bookended pair of television franchises—oddly enough, for the Romney-fied Right, both broadcast on PBS. The first is Free to Choose (1980), starring the Nobel Prize–winning, kindly seeming yet fire-breathing economist Milton Friedman. The second, flashier offering is Half the Sky (2012), starring Nicholas Kristof—the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist—in an instructive series about women’s central role in the great market order. The Friedman series presented neoliberal thought as nonpartisan—even apolitical—common sense, and thus the only reasonable path to global salvation. Kristof merely glosses the utopian vision Friedman put into action: the great man’s views are self-evident, it seems, a fait accompli only in need of a bit of pizzazz."
Read the rest here: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/marketpiece_theater and do pass it along if you like!
In related news, the long-anticipated follow-up to Cambodian Grrrl, New Girl Law, comes out at the end of the month: http://www.anneelizabethmoore.com/ngl I won't be touring with it, but posting excerpts at the link every week throughout Women's History Month. Hope you enjoy them!
And happy Spring,
aem
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Anne Elizabeth Moore
http://anneelizabethmoore.com
Just wanted to let you know I have a new piece up today at the Baffler (out in print April 9) on the uneasy links between Milton Friedman, Nick Kristof, and PBS, and what they mean for the global economic condition of women:
"The girders of our modern political, economic, and cultural structure can be seen clearly in a nicely bookended pair of television franchises—oddly enough, for the Romney-fied Right, both broadcast on PBS. The first is Free to Choose (1980), starring the Nobel Prize–winning, kindly seeming yet fire-breathing economist Milton Friedman. The second, flashier offering is Half the Sky (2012), starring Nicholas Kristof—the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist—in an instructive series about women’s central role in the great market order. The Friedman series presented neoliberal thought as nonpartisan—even apolitical—common sense, and thus the only reasonable path to global salvation. Kristof merely glosses the utopian vision Friedman put into action: the great man’s views are self-evident, it seems, a fait accompli only in need of a bit of pizzazz."
Read the rest here: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/marketpiece_theater and do pass it along if you like!
In related news, the long-anticipated follow-up to Cambodian Grrrl, New Girl Law, comes out at the end of the month: http://www.anneelizabethmoore.com/ngl I won't be touring with it, but posting excerpts at the link every week throughout Women's History Month. Hope you enjoy them!
And happy Spring,
aem
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Anne Elizabeth Moore
http://anneelizabethmoore.com
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