ISBN:
9780812200010
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 313 Seiten)
DDC:
320.51
Keywords:
Neoliberalismus
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Economics Sociological aspects
;
Ethnology
;
Neoliberalism
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Since 2008, the global economic crisis has exposed and deepened the tensions between austerity and social security - not just as competing paradigms of recovery but also as fundamentally different visions of governmental and personal responsibility. In this sense, the core premise of neoliberalism - the dominant approach to government around the world since the 1980s - may by now have reached a certain political limit. Based on the premise that markets are more efficient than government, neoliberal reforms were pushed by powerful national and transnational organizations as conditions of investment, lending, and trade, often in the name of freedom. In the same spirit, governments increasingly turned to the private sector for what were formerly state functions. While it has become a commonplace to observe that neoliberalism refashioned citizenship around consumption, the essays in this volume demonstrate the incompleteness of that image ...
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhwpd
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