Memories of Class and Youth in the Age of Disposability

In spite of being discredited by the economic recession of 2008, market fundamentalism or unfettered free-market capitalism has once again become a dominant force for producing a corrupt financial service industry, runaway environmental devastation, egregious amounts of human suffering, and the rise of what has been called the emergence of “finance as a criminalized, rogue industry.”1 The Gilded Age is back with huge profits for the ultrarich, …