Machine generated contents note: -- PROLOGUE: Modern Radicalism and Mill -- PART 1: THE UTILITARIAN READING OF ACCUMULATION -- Chapter 1: Antecedents -- Chapter 2: The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number -- Chapter 3: Bentham's Liberal Triumphalism -- Chapter 4: Utilitaria…
Neoliberal economic theories are powerful because their domestic translators make them go local, hybridizing global scripts with local ideas. This does not mean that all local translations shape policy, however. External constraints and translators' access to cohesive policy ins…
Neoliberal economic theories are powerful because their domestic translators make them go local, hybridizing global scripts with local ideas. This does not mean that all local translations shape policy, however. External constraints and translators' access to cohesive policy ins…
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 2004 Hungarian paprika ban -- The 2008 foie gras boycott -- The 2010 red mud spill -- Neoliberalism, molecularization, and the shift to governance
In The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillfully probes how innovative center-left politico-econ…
Introduction. Fairy tales of development : climate change, COVID-19 and neoliberalism -- The Freirean pedagogy of development education -- Development education and social change -- Development education and "adjectival" sectors -- Development education in practice -- Neoliberal…
"The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy - the "market-institutional" perspective - which emphasizes the ways in which markets are embedded in political and social institutions. This perspective offers a compelling alternati…
Contemporary financial self-help and the rise of neoliberalism -- It's not about money, it's about freedom -- From rats to riches -- Creating a world of abundance -- American dreams in Argentina -- Conclusion : financial self-help and beyond