{"id":6499,"date":"2015-07-13T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2015-07-13T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T21:32:07","slug":"the-fire-economy-the-launch-of-jane-kelseys-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6499","title":{"rendered":"The FIRE Economy the launch of Jane Kelsey&#8217;s new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Kelsey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6500\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Kelsey.jpg\" alt=\"Kelsey\" width=\"780\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Kelsey.jpg 780w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Kelsey-300x129.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Kelsey-570x246.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Kelsey-701x302.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FIRE economy \u2013 built on finance, insurance and real estate \u2013 is now the world\u2019s principal source of wealth creation. Its rise has transformed our political, economic and social landscapes, supported by a neoliberal regime that celebrates markets, profit and risk. From rising inequality and ballooning household debt to a global financial crisis and fiscal austerity, the neoliberal \u2018orthodoxy\u2019 has brought instability and empowered the few. Yet it remains remarkably resilient, even resurgent, in New Zealand and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995 Jane Kelsey set out a groundbreaking account of the neoliberal revolution in\u00a0<em>The New Zealand Experiment<\/em>. Now she marshals an exceptional range of evidence to show how this transfer of wealth and power has been systematically embedded over three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Today organisations and commentators once at the vanguard of neoliberal reform, including the IMF and<em>Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0journalist Martin Wolf, are warning the current model is unsustainable. A post-neoliberal era beckons. In\u00a0<em>The FIRE Economy<\/em>\u00a0Kelsey identifies the risks posed by FIRE and the barriers embedded neoliberalism presents to a progressive, post-neoliberal transformation \u2013 and urges us to act. This is a book New Zealand cannot afford to ignore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwb.co.nz\/books\/the-fire-economy\">http:\/\/www.bwb.co.nz\/books\/the-fire-economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIRE economy \u2013 built on finance, insurance and real estate \u2013 is now the world\u2019s principal source of wealth creation. Its rise has transformed our political, economic and social landscapes, supported by a neoliberal regime that celebrates markets, profit and risk. From rising inequality and ballooning household debt to a global financial crisis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6503,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions\/6503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}