Mehrsa Baradaran
@mehrsab.bsky.social
Law Professor, Author of Quiet Coup, Color of Money, and How the Other Half Banks.
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/mehrsa-baradaran/
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/mehrsa-baradaran/
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@mehrsab.bsky.social, Professor of Law at @ucirvine.bsky.social, is the newest addition to our Forward Thinkers list.
A leading expert on financial law and inequality, she has shaped key policy discussions on banking access and the racial wealth gap.
See the full list: bit.ly/42hWWWt #PS30
A leading expert on financial law and inequality, she has shaped key policy discussions on banking access and the racial wealth gap.
See the full list: bit.ly/42hWWWt #PS30
April 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@mehrsab.bsky.social, Professor of Law at @ucirvine.bsky.social, is the newest addition to our Forward Thinkers list.
A leading expert on financial law and inequality, she has shaped key policy discussions on banking access and the racial wealth gap.
See the full list: bit.ly/42hWWWt #PS30
A leading expert on financial law and inequality, she has shaped key policy discussions on banking access and the racial wealth gap.
See the full list: bit.ly/42hWWWt #PS30
I'm so honored to be on this list!
We believe that these thinkers, drawn from academia, policymaking, civil society, and the private sector, will drive progress on key global issues for years to come.
Meet the Forward Thinkers: bit.ly/42hWWWt
Meet the Forward Thinkers: bit.ly/42hWWWt
April 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm so honored to be on this list!
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To mark 30 years of Project Syndicate, we are proud to launch the #PS30 Forward Thinkers list. Over the coming weeks, we will introduce 30 individuals who are reshaping our understanding of politics, economics, technology, sustainability, and more.
April 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
To mark 30 years of Project Syndicate, we are proud to launch the #PS30 Forward Thinkers list. Over the coming weeks, we will introduce 30 individuals who are reshaping our understanding of politics, economics, technology, sustainability, and more.
NYC friends, I'll be speaking about The Quiet Coup at the NY Historical Society with Khalil Gibran Muhammad on March 31st!
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America | The New York Historical
Professors Mehrsa Baradaran and Khalil Gibran Muhammad discuss how neoliberalism may have contributed to our current tumultuous moment in American history.
www.nyhistory.org
March 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
NYC friends, I'll be speaking about The Quiet Coup at the NY Historical Society with Khalil Gibran Muhammad on March 31st!
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
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The neoliberal myth making has been working across the board of the establishment for decades, MAGA is its natural result. The Quiet Coup is not so quiet anymore.
Read that book and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social
Read that book and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The neoliberal myth making has been working across the board of the establishment for decades, MAGA is its natural result. The Quiet Coup is not so quiet anymore.
Read that book and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social
Read that book and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social
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This EO also targets the Minority Business Development Agency. As @mehrsab.bsky.social shows, the agency was started by Nixon as a way to undermine calls for Black Power and had a small budget and little overall economic impact. The neosegregationists are removing integration's fig leaves.
March 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This EO also targets the Minority Business Development Agency. As @mehrsab.bsky.social shows, the agency was started by Nixon as a way to undermine calls for Black Power and had a small budget and little overall economic impact. The neosegregationists are removing integration's fig leaves.
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Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social’s paper “Jim Crow Credit” is cited in @newrepublic.com, highlighting how historical racial discrimination in credit practices has perpetuated financial exclusion for Black communities. newrepublic.com/article/1920...
The Big, Empty Promises of the
Ballooning
Credit-Repair Industry
Lexington Law tries, for a fee, to raise the credit scores of vulnerable debtors. Some of the firm’s clients tell a different story.
newrepublic.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social’s paper “Jim Crow Credit” is cited in @newrepublic.com, highlighting how historical racial discrimination in credit practices has perpetuated financial exclusion for Black communities. newrepublic.com/article/1920...
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Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social talks to Hal Singer and Darren Bush about her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America." Buy the book, and watch/listen to the podcast.
www.thesling.org/video/slings...
www.thesling.org/video/slings...
Slingshot Episode 21 - The Sling
Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, UC Irvine School of Law, discusses her book “The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America” (Liveright/Norton Press 2024) with Hal Singer and Darren Bush.
www.thesling.org
March 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social talks to Hal Singer and Darren Bush about her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America." Buy the book, and watch/listen to the podcast.
www.thesling.org/video/slings...
www.thesling.org/video/slings...
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“Let the sharks roam free. What could go wrong?”
Everything, it turns out.
If you haven’t read The Quiet Coup, run to it (and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social later.)
#AmericaKkkrashing #Photography #NaturePhotography #Swans
The swan, 2024.
Everything, it turns out.
If you haven’t read The Quiet Coup, run to it (and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social later.)
#AmericaKkkrashing #Photography #NaturePhotography #Swans
The swan, 2024.
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Let the sharks roam free. What could go wrong?”
Everything, it turns out.
If you haven’t read The Quiet Coup, run to it (and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social later.)
#AmericaKkkrashing #Photography #NaturePhotography #Swans
The swan, 2024.
Everything, it turns out.
If you haven’t read The Quiet Coup, run to it (and thank @mehrsab.bsky.social later.)
#AmericaKkkrashing #Photography #NaturePhotography #Swans
The swan, 2024.
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The formalist court that enabled a complete, and utterly immoral, neoliberal coup gets what it deserves (thx @mehrsab.bsky.social for enlightening me.)
March 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The formalist court that enabled a complete, and utterly immoral, neoliberal coup gets what it deserves (thx @mehrsab.bsky.social for enlightening me.)
thank you
Neoliberalism and the looting of America, wrote @mehrsab.bsky.social
Required reading.
Required reading.
February 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
thank you
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Useful perspective from my @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social colleague
February 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Useful perspective from my @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social colleague
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A thought, provoking and important message of hope. If you need a little jolt of inspiration, watch this video by @mehrsab.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A thought, provoking and important message of hope. If you need a little jolt of inspiration, watch this video by @mehrsab.bsky.social
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One of the most infuriating things I learned from @mehrsab.bsky.social's The Quiet Coup is that California's power company used CBA to determine their most profitable course of action re: worn out/dangerous power lines was to impose occasional deadly blackouts instead of fixing the fire hazard.
The LA fires are a profound example of what climate scientists have been struggling to prevent for decades.
I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.
I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.
January 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
One of the most infuriating things I learned from @mehrsab.bsky.social's The Quiet Coup is that California's power company used CBA to determine their most profitable course of action re: worn out/dangerous power lines was to impose occasional deadly blackouts instead of fixing the fire hazard.
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With @mehrsab.bsky.social: we talked about the rise of neoliberalism during the unrest of the `60s, the growth of a cancerous war machine, and how the most cited legal scholar ever assumed people who drink Mountain Dew are rational. skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-cance...
The Cancerous Growth of a Neoliberal War Machine
With Professor Mehrsa Baradaran
skippedhistory.substack.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:11 PM
With @mehrsab.bsky.social: we talked about the rise of neoliberalism during the unrest of the `60s, the growth of a cancerous war machine, and how the most cited legal scholar ever assumed people who drink Mountain Dew are rational. skippedhistory.substack.com/p/the-cance...
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“It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes.”
For @lpeblog.bsky.social, I wrote about @mehrsab.bsky.social’s “The Quiet Coup” and what we talk about when we talk about #neoliberalism. @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/can-neo...
For @lpeblog.bsky.social, I wrote about @mehrsab.bsky.social’s “The Quiet Coup” and what we talk about when we talk about #neoliberalism. @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/can-neo...
The Whole Equation: Can “Neoliberalism” Explain Everything?
In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran takes the conversation about neoliberalism beyond the realm of economics, focusing instead on legal revolutions, the conservative reaction to the Civil Rights…
lpeproject.org
December 20, 2024 at 1:13 PM
“It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes.”
For @lpeblog.bsky.social, I wrote about @mehrsab.bsky.social’s “The Quiet Coup” and what we talk about when we talk about #neoliberalism. @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/can-neo...
For @lpeblog.bsky.social, I wrote about @mehrsab.bsky.social’s “The Quiet Coup” and what we talk about when we talk about #neoliberalism. @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/can-neo...
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Today, @henrymjtonks.bsky.social reviews @mehrsab.bsky.social's *The Quiet Coup,* an account of the neoliberal era that touches on everything from empire to civil rights to campaign finance and antitrust.
The Whole Equation: Can “Neoliberalism” Explain Everything?
In The Quiet Coup, Mehrsa Baradaran takes the conversation about neoliberalism beyond the realm of economics, focusing instead on legal revolutions, the conservative reaction to the Civil Rights…
lpeproject.org
December 18, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Today, @henrymjtonks.bsky.social reviews @mehrsab.bsky.social's *The Quiet Coup,* an account of the neoliberal era that touches on everything from empire to civil rights to campaign finance and antitrust.
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As 2024 draws to a close, the need for an economy that truly works for American families couldn’t be clearer. Here are twelve smart, solutions-focused, myth-busting books from the last twelve months that might help us all move closer to a just economy:
www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...
www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...
An Economic Education: The Best Economy Books of 2024
Here are twelve books from the last twelve months that might help us all move closer to a just economy
www.aspeninstitute.org
December 17, 2024 at 3:04 PM
As 2024 draws to a close, the need for an economy that truly works for American families couldn’t be clearer. Here are twelve smart, solutions-focused, myth-busting books from the last twelve months that might help us all move closer to a just economy:
www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...
www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/a...
Yay!!!
December 17, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Yay!!!
I taught a large 1L contracts course at Harvard this year that had 5 or fewer Black and Latino students. It was jarring and uncomfortable and totally unnecessary. The UC's have been dealing with an AA ban for years and still create diverse classes. HLS can do better.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half
After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I taught a large 1L contracts course at Harvard this year that had 5 or fewer Black and Latino students. It was jarring and uncomfortable and totally unnecessary. The UC's have been dealing with an AA ban for years and still create diverse classes. HLS can do better.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
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From memoirs to podcasts to novels - our editors share their favourite reads in our favourite annual tradition.
As we reflect on 2024, may you find radical hope in their pages.
www.historyworkshop....
As we reflect on 2024, may you find radical hope in their pages.
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Radical Reads 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, the History Workshop editors have chosen a new selection of Radical Reads - all of which have inspired, emboldened and comforted us during another tumultuous year.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 12, 2024 at 11:27 AM
From memoirs to podcasts to novels - our editors share their favourite reads in our favourite annual tradition.
As we reflect on 2024, may you find radical hope in their pages.
www.historyworkshop....
As we reflect on 2024, may you find radical hope in their pages.
www.historyworkshop....
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What a fantastic talk about @mehrsab.bsky.social ‘s “spooky” - and compelling and important - new book, The Quiet Coup!
My spooky Halloween talk at the Kennedy Center:
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Mehrsa Baradaran - The Quiet Coup
YouTube video by Harvard Inequality and Social Policy
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December 3, 2024 at 5:59 AM
What a fantastic talk about @mehrsab.bsky.social ‘s “spooky” - and compelling and important - new book, The Quiet Coup!