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A brief history of neoliberalism / David Harvey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: vii, 247 pages : maps ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199283279 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.122 HAR 23 010928
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Freedom's just another word ... 2. The construction of consent 3. The neoliberal state 4. Uneven geographical developments 5. Neoliberalism 'with Chinese characteristics' 6. Neoliberalism on trial 7. Freedom's prospect
Summary: Writing for a wide audience, Harvey here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. He constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for more socially just alternatives. - ;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. Its spread has depended upon a reconst.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.

1. Freedom's just another word ...
2. The construction of consent
3. The neoliberal state
4. Uneven geographical developments
5. Neoliberalism 'with Chinese characteristics'
6. Neoliberalism on trial
7. Freedom's prospect

Writing for a wide audience, Harvey here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. He constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for more socially just alternatives. - ;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. Its spread has depended upon a reconst.

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