![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bremer Orders decreed the sell-off of state enterprises, the opening of Iraqi companies to foreign ownership, the restriction of labor rights and a capital-friendly tax regime.īrown concentrates on Bremer Order 81, the prohibition of re-use of crop seeds of protected varieties. The Bremer Orders appear at first blush to be a classic instance of neoliberal ‘shock doctrine’. Brown discusses the 2003 Bremer Orders, issued by Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq after the United States and its allies defeated Saddam Hussein and occupied the country. I’ll try to summarize its insights into neoliberalism, but also pose some questions regarding the things about which I am curious that get no mention in it. Certainly the clearest and sharpest account of neoliberalism I have read so far. Her new book, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, New York 2015) is very fine. It turns out that I’m curious about rather different things to Wendy Brown. Different scholars get curious about different things. ![]()
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