HLS Library Book Talk: The Quiet Coup

Join the HLS Library on Wednesday October 16 at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in  HLS Library Langdell Hall 232/233. This event features a discussion on The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America with author and HLS Visiting Professor Mehrsa Baradaran. This event is free and will be recorded, open to all Harvard ID holders in person, open to the public on Zoom Webinars.

Register to attend in person, Harvard ID required. Register by October 9 for a complimentary lunch.

Register for the livestream via Zoom Webinars, open to the public. Livestream does not include lunch.

If you, or an event participant, require disability-related accommodations, please contact Accessibility Services at accessibility@law.harvard.edu.

More about the book from the publisher:
“With the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren’t college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is government completely inept in the face of natural disasters? And why do pundits tell us that the economy is strong even though the majority of Americans can barely make ends meet? In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran, one of our leading public intellectuals, argues that the system is in fact rigged toward the powerful, though it wasn’t the work of evil puppet masters behind the curtain. Rather, the rigging was carried out by hundreds of (mostly) law-abiding lawyers, judges, regulators, policy makers, and lobbyists. Adherents of a market-centered doctrine called neoliberalism, these individuals, over the course of decades, worked to transform the nation—and succeeded.”