It sounds like the set-up of a joke: what do the chair of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), the Pope, and the founder of the Davos World Economic Forum have in common? The mirthless punchline: they all hate (or are exhausted by) “neoliberalism”.
But what do they mean by this? And is it a helpful way of describing the world?
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