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ready to participate in the planning? Will there be stable states maintaining stable institutions for the purpose, and for the implementation of the plan once it has been made? And what is it in the first place that would be planned in Pakistan and Palestine, in Algeria and Afghanistan, in Mali, Mexico and Mississippi, to name just a few?

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* David M. Kotz, The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. For the other side of the coin, see for example Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015; and Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

* On how American debt provides for external funding of American internal consumption, see Guido Giacomo Preparata and Domenico D’Amico, ‘The Political Economy of Hyper-Modernity: A Tale of America’s Hegemonic Exigencies Recounted through the Undulations of the US Balance of Payments, 1946–2015’, in Giacomo Preparata, ed., New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research: Humanity vs. Hyper-Modernity, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.