Mehrsa Baradaran

@mehrsab.bsky.social, Professor of Law at @ucirvine.bsky.social, is the newest addition to our Forward Thinkers list.

A leading expert on financial law and inequality, she has shaped key policy discussions on banking access and the racial wealth gap.

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I'm so honored to be on this list!

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The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America | The New York Historical Professors Mehrsa Baradaran and Khalil Gibran Muhammad discuss how neoliberalism may have contributed to our current tumultuous moment in American history.

NYC friends, I'll be speaking about The Quiet Coup at the NY Historical Society with Khalil Gibran Muhammad on March 31st!

www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...

This EO also targets the Minority Business Development Agency. As @mehrsab.bsky.social shows, the agency was started by Nixon as a way to undermine calls for Black Power and had a small budget and little overall economic impact. The neosegregationists are removing integration's fig leaves.

The Big, Empty Promises of the Ballooning Credit-Repair Industry Lexington Law tries, for a fee, to raise the credit scores of vulnerable debtors. Some of the firm’s clients tell a different story.

Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social’s paper “Jim Crow Credit” is cited in @newrepublic.com, highlighting how historical racial discrimination in credit practices has perpetuated financial exclusion for Black communities. newrepublic.com/article/1920...

Slingshot Episode 21 - The Sling Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, UC Irvine School of Law, discusses her book “The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America” (Liveright/Norton Press 2024) with Hal Singer and Darren Bush.

Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social talks to Hal Singer and Darren Bush about her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America." Buy the book, and watch/listen to the podcast.

www.thesling.org/video/slings...

thank you

Useful perspective from my @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social colleague

A thought, provoking and important message of hope. If you need a little jolt of inspiration, watch this video by @mehrsab.bsky.social

TikTok video by achillesotherhee1

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2hpaN2f/

One of the most infuriating things I learned from @mehrsab.bsky.social's The Quiet Coup is that California's power company used CBA to determine their most profitable course of action re: worn out/dangerous power lines was to impose occasional deadly blackouts instead of fixing the fire hazard.

The Cancerous Growth of a Neoliberal War Machine With Professor Mehrsa Baradaran

With @mehrsab.bsky.social: we talked about the rise of neoliberalism during the unrest of the `60s, the growth of a cancerous war machine, and how the most cited legal scholar ever assumed people who drink Mountain Dew are rational. skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-cance...

The Whole Equation: Can “Neoliberalism” Explain Everything? In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran takes the conversation about neoliberalism beyond the realm of economics, focusing instead on legal revolutions, the conservative reaction to the Civil Rights…

“It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes.”

For @lpeblog.bsky.social, I wrote about @mehrsab.bsky.social’s “The Quiet Coup” and what we talk about when we talk about #neoliberalism. @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/can-neo...

The Whole Equation: Can “Neoliberalism” Explain Everything? In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran takes the conversation about neoliberalism beyond the realm of economics, focusing instead on legal revolutions, the conservative reaction to the Civil Rights…

Today, @henrymjtonks.bsky.social reviews @mehrsab.bsky.social's *The Quiet Coup,* an account of the neoliberal era that touches on everything from empire to civil rights to campaign finance and antitrust.

An Economic Education: The Best Economy Books of 2024 Here are twelve books from the last twelve months that might help us all move closer to a just economy

As 2024 draws to a close, the need for an economy that truly works for American families couldn’t be clearer. Here are twelve smart, solutions-focused, myth-busting books from the last twelve months that might help us all move closer to a just economy:
www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...

Yay!!!

Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.

I taught a large 1L contracts course at Harvard this year that had 5 or fewer Black and Latino students. It was jarring and uncomfortable and totally unnecessary. The UC's have been dealing with an AA ban for years and still create diverse classes. HLS can do better.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

Radical Reads 2024 As 2024 draws to a close, the History Workshop editors have chosen a new selection of Radical Reads - all of which have inspired, emboldened and comforted us during another tumultuous year.

From memoirs to podcasts to novels - our editors share their favourite reads in our favourite annual tradition.

As we reflect on 2024, may you find radical hope in their pages.

www.historyworkshop....

What a fantastic talk about @mehrsab.bsky.social ‘s “spooky” - and compelling and important - new book, The Quiet Coup!

I want to note that my second daughter is currently doing an AP English assignment where she has to sound like you and we tried chatGPT with many prompts and none of it even came close to sounding like you. lol. But also, Ahmari--🙄

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

YouTube video by Harvard Inequality and Social Policy Mehrsa Baradaran - The Quiet Coup

My spooky Halloween talk at the Kennedy Center:
youtu.be/5Rbvw7L3s9M?...

Why hasn't there been a massive blockbuster about Harriet Tubman yet? I mean, I know the answer, but Jesus, she's the only certifiable American hero!

My 17-yr old daughter driving on the freeway the other day: I don't understand why people go slow when you can go fast.

When the apple falls right next to the tree and the tree wishes it'd fallen a bit further away--like into the slow lane.