Noam Chomsky

Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) Noam Chomsky

What is democracy? Is it a popular process of consultation and decision making - for the people, by the people? Or is it another term for an open marketplace? Here Noam Chomsky explains why the gap between principle and reality is so wide.

Neoliberalism and Global Order

Profit Over People

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them and create a global financial crisis? The culprit is neoliberal ideology, the belief in the supremacy of free markets to drive and govern human affairs. Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, traces the history of neoliberalism through an analysis of free trade agreements, the WTO and the IMF and describes the movements of resistance.

Profit Over People Neoliberalism and Global Order