Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a provided this commercial law that is independent from the state.
David GraeberNeoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.
David GraeberDebt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.
David GraeberThe notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.
David Graeber