Time: 6:30pmVenue: The People’s Palace Lecture Theatre 1, People's Palace, Mile End Campus
In his book, Masters of the Universe, Dr Stedman Jones argues that neoliberal ideas developed across the Atlantic in the post-war period before taking hold on policymakers in the United States and the United Kingdom as a response to the economic crises of the 1970s. Why were neoliberal ideas compelling? Part of the answer lies in the desperation of the situation of stagflation. More importantly, the answer can be found in the transformation of neoiliberal ideas in the postwar United States. This talk examines this change in neoliberal ideas as they were incubated in an environment dominated by the Cold War and rising prosperity.
Dr Daniel Stedman Jones is a barrister at 39 Essex Street Chambers in London. He was educated at Pimlico Comprehensive and New College, Oxford University. Daniel worked as a policy adviser at the thinktank Demos and the New Opportunities Fund. He was a Thouron Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) (2003-2004) where he completed a Masters in Political Theory and American Politics. Daniel completed a PhD in American history and the history of economic thought at Penn in 2009. In August 2012, his book on the history of neoliberalism, Masters of the Universe, was published by Princeton University Press.