{"id":754125,"date":"2026-08-30T02:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754125\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:16:24","slug":"what-we-are-reading-today-toward-a-free-economy-by-aditya-balasubramanian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754125\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Are Reading Today: \u2018Toward a Free Economy\u2019 by Aditya Balasubramanian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRevising this understanding, \u201cToward a Free Economy\u201d shows how economic conservatism emerged and was disseminated in a postcolonial society consistent with the logic of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTwelve years after the British left India, a Swatantra (\u201cFreedom\u201d) Party came to life. It encouraged Indians to break with the Indian National Congress Party, which spearheaded the anticolonial nationalist movement and now dominated Indian democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}