A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Type

Book

Authors

David Harvey

ISBN 10

0199283265

ISBN 13

9780199283262

Tags

Economic Policy & Development, Free Enterprise, Conservatism & Liberalism, History & Theory, Economic Policy

Description

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements. - from Amzon

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