The political Achilles heel of globalization, this book argues, is that it is taking place without engaging - or even consulting -citizens at large. The author, a Dutch social scientist with a lifetime of work in Latin America, argues that the neoliberal mind set cannot apprecia…
The rise of neoliberalism and institutional analysis
This volume brings four of the various schools of institutional analysis together: rational choice, organizational, historical, and discursive institutionalism, to examine the rise of neoliberalism.
Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world--the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Soderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that…
The financial crisis of 2008-9 seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo-liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades ... Colin Crouch argues that neoliberalism will shrug off this challenge. The …
Explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. With the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from sta…
In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential elect…
