
How the Left Fell in and Out of Love With Free Trade
In Pax Economica, the historian Marc-William Palen argues that the Left has a long history of championing open markets as a bulwark against nationalism. Neoliberals quashed this idealism.
Lise Butler is a historian at City, University of London, and the author of Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left: 1945-70. She is a contributing editor to Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy.
In Pax Economica, the historian Marc-William Palen argues that the Left has a long history of championing open markets as a bulwark against nationalism. Neoliberals quashed this idealism.