Fernando Loayza Jordán (Drexel; J.S.D. 2025, Yale; Google Scholar) presents Contesting the Neoliberal Social Contract today as part of the What is Capitalism? Reading Group hosted by the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law: 

The paper argues that progressive policymakers are often too quick to make discursive concessions to neoliberal understandings of taxation, with long-term consequences that may overshadow the short-term distributive wins. These discursive concessions can affect the possibility of future progressive tax policies, reinforcing antidemocratic understandings of citizenship and the democratic social contract generally. The paper presents a framework to assess the gravity of discursive concessions and proposes that progressive tax policymakers should consider democracy as an independent tax policy goal.

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