Preface
List of Illustrations
1. Making America Worse
2. A Class for Itself
3. The Capitalists
4. Companies Making Themselves Greater
5. The Economists
6. The Institutions of Government: Neither of, Nor for, the People
7. The Media – Speaking Truth for Power
8. Decline of American Presidents
9. Fork In the Road
10. Epilogue
Biography
Robert Chernomas is a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba. He was also a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University and Bucknell University. He is the co-author (with Ian Hudson and Gregory Chernomas) of The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines (2025), (with Ian Hudson) Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature, Health in the Contemporary United States (2019), The Profit Doctrine: The Economists of the Neoliberal Era (2017), and Economics in the 21st Century: A Critical Perspective (2016).
Ian Hudson is Associate Head of the Economics and Society Stream in the Economics Department at the University of Manitoba. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas and Gregory Chernomas) of The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines (2025), (with Robert Chernomas) Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature, Health in the Contemporary United States (2019), The Profit Doctrine: The Economists of the Neoliberal Era (2017), and Economics in the 21st Century: A Critical Perspective (2016).






