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The following excerpt is taken from a public lecture given by Marjorie Griffen Cohen, Professor of Economics and Chair of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU), entitled "Economic Fundamentalism and its Threat to Democracy."The address, part of the 1998 President's Lecture series at SFU, examined the ascendency of neoliberalism — "economic fundamentalism"— in the post-World War II period and its impact on the political, economic, and social institutions that "supported the ideas of equality and democracy in industrialized countries." In this passage, Cohen sketches a "political approach" to countering the erosion of the welfare state and what she calls the "marketization" of social and economic life. --Editor's introduction