S03E36 - Clara E. Mattei on Austerity, Fascism and Authoritarian Liberalism

Clara E. Mattei on the relation between austerity, fascism and
authoritarian liberalism. Clara's book is out in German! Find it
here:


Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden
und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.


https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals


 


Shownotes


Clara E. Mattei’s website:


https://www.claramattei.com/


Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa,
Oklahoma:


https://sites.utulsa.edu/chetu/


CHE’s YouTube channel:


https://www.youtube.com/@CHE-tulsa


Mattei, C. E. (2022). The Capital Order: How Economists Invented
Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. University of Chicago
Press.


https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo181707138.html


the german translation:


Mattei, C. E. (2025). Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die
Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten.
Brumaire Verlag.


https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals


on „Derisking“:


Amarnath, S., Brusseler, M., Gabor, D., Lala, C., Mason, JW
(2023). Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.


https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/


on “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency):


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency


on the new german “Sondervermögen” to invest in rearmament and
infrastructure:


https://www.dw.com/en/germany-set-to-spend-big-on-army-and-infrastructure/a-71834527


on the 1920 International Financial Conference in Brussels:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_International_Financial_Conference_(1920)


on the 1922 Economic and Financial Conference in Genoa:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa_Economic_and_Financial_Conference_(1922)


on Google’s contract with the IDF:


https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349582/google-israel-defense-forces-idf-contract-gaza


Benanav, A. (2022). Socialist Investment, Dynamic Planning, and
the Politics of Human Need. Rethinking Marxism, 34(2), 193–204.


https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2022.2051375


Sirianni, C. J. (1980). Workers’ Control in the Era of World War
I: A Comparative Analysis of the European Experience. Theory and
Society, 9(1), 29–88.


https://www.jstor.org/stable/656823


on the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers%27_Movement


Braun, B. (2021) Central Bank Planning for Public Purpose. In:
Fassin, D. and Fourcade, M. (eds.) Pandemic Exposures: Economy
and Society in the Time of Coronavirus. HAU Books, pp. 105–121.


https://benjaminbraun.org/assets/pubs/braun_central-bank-planning-public-purpose.pdf


on the “Phillips Curve”:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve


Arun K. Patnaik. (1988). Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense:
Towards a Theory of Subaltern Consciousness in Hegemony
Processes. Economic and Political Weekly, 23(5).


https://www.jstor.org/stable/4378042


Thomas, P.D. (2015). Gramsci’s Marxism: The ‘Philosophy of
Praxis’. In: McNally, M. (eds.) Antonio Gramsci. Critical
Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought. Palgrave
Macmillan.


https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137334183_6


on the US Solidarity Economy:


https://neweconomy.net/solidarity-economy/


the US Solidarity Economy Network:


https://ussen.org/


the US Solidarity Economy Map and Directory:


https://solidarityeconomy.us/


 


If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these
resources might be of help:


Democratic planning – an information website


https://www.democratic-planning.com/


Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic
Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue
1.


https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1


Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction -
Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol
University Press. [for a review copy, please contact:
amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]


https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction


International Network for Democratic Economic Planning


https://www.indep.network/


Democratic Planning Research Platform:


https://www.planningresearch.net/


 


Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics


 


S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/


S03E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its
Alternatives


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e24-grace-blakeley-on-capitalist-planning-and-its-alternatives/


S02E08 | Thomas Biebricher zu neoliberaler Regierungskunst


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e08-thomas-biebricher-zu-neoliberaler-regierungskunst/


 


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