A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072PRGRTV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 582 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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TS555 said Great Read. On one hand this only adds fuel to my already well-it bonfire of paranoia but it's a very well-written book. Had to read it for a class and was not too keen but once I started, I could not stop. I plan on reading the whole book beyond the assigned page range. Articulate and concise, without the usual, largely incomprehensible academic jargon, very clearly lays out what's been going on. Scary.. Towards a politics of the working class: concerned citizens take note, worsening economic conditions can be reversed. David Harvey, distinguished professor of Anthropology and Geography at City University New York, presents an incisive and highly readable critique of the doctrine of political economy known as Neoliberalism. Whether or not you agree with his arguments, the book is a high quality piece of scholarship that is immensely well researched. Harvey provides in depth citations to check his sources and evaluate the implications he presents of the supporting material.As the book deals with a subject fundamental to our material. Very enlightening! This well-documented history helps each of us understand the revolution that has gradually bankrupted the public services sector in the United States and the United Kingdom. David Harvey traces the ascent of business interests from the bankruptcy and reorganization of New York City in 1975, to the stripping of the British public sector under Thatcher, to Ronald Reagan's crusade against big government. Harvey provides a detailed account of the lobbying and organization of ideas that led to our current belief that it
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.. 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. 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