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New Deal Order, Neoliberalism, Neofascism, Oligarchic Kleptocrism—which of these are live political-economic options for the future. This column draft is not (yet) where I want it to be, so I am…

New Deal Order, Neoliberalism, Neofascism, Oligarchic Kleptocrism—which of these are live political-economic options for the future. This column draft is not (yet) where I want it to be, so I am keeping it paid subscribers-only.

I am interested in seeing what the Project Syndicate editors decide to do with it…

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My big 20th-century economic-history book of last fall Slouching Towards Utopia <www.amazon.com/dp/046501…>> did not have a “the future” or a “what we should <do next” chapter My frequent co-author Steve Cohen argued me out of having such a chapter: in history books, he wisely observed, such a chapter is always outdated and looks silly no more than six months after publication. Including it greatly erodes the credibility of the rest of the book.

But if I were to have written a last looking forward into the future chapter for my slouching towards utopia, what should have said?…