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.
Author(s): David Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: vii, 247 p.
City: New York
Copyright
Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Freedom's Just Another Word...
Why the Neoliberal Turn?
The Rise of Neoliberal Theory
The Meaning of Class Power
Freedom’s Prospect
2 The Construction of Consent
3 The Neoliberal State
The Neoliberal State in Theory
The Neoliberal State in Practice
The Neoconservative Answer
4 Uneven Geographical Developments
The Moving Map of Neoliberalization
Dispatches from the Frontlines
Mexico
The Argentinian Collapse
South Korea
Sweden
Forces and Fluxes
5 Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics
Internal Transformations
External Relations
Towards a Reconstitution of Class Power?
6 Neoliberalism on Trial
Neoliberalism on Trial Neoliberal Achievements
The Commodification of Everything
Environmental Degradations
On Rights
7 Freedom s Prospect
The End of Neoliberalism?
Alternatives
Notes
Notes to Pages 7…23
Notes to Pages 23…39
Notes to Pages 39…51
Notes to Pages 51…68
Notes to Pages 69…82
Notes to Pages 83…103
Notes to Pages 103…116
Notes to Pages 117…130
Notes to Pages 132…138
Notes to Pages 139…146
Notes to Pages 147…156
Notes to Pages 156…170
Notes to Pages 171…179
Notes to Pages 179…187
Notes to Pages 187…206
Bibliography
Index
