The origins of neoliberalism : insights from economics and philosophy
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The origins of neoliberalism : insights from economics and philosophy
(Routledge studies in the history of economics, 186)
Routledge, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework. In recent years, neoliberalism has become increasingly prominent as a doctrine in Western society, and has been heavily discussed in both academia and the media.
In The Origins of Neoliberalism, the joint effort of an economist and a philosopher offers a theoretical overview of both neoliberalism's genesis within economic theory and social studies as well as its development outside academia. Tracing the sources of neoliberalism within the history of economic thought, the book explores the differences between neoliberalism and classical liberalism. This book's aim is to make clear that neoliberalism is not a natural development of the old classical liberalism, but rather that it represents a dramatic alteration of its original nature and meaning. Also, it fights against the current idea according to which neoliberalism would coincide with the triumph of free market economy.
In its use of both history of economics and philosophy, this book takes a highly original approach to the concept of neoliberalism. The analysis presented here will be of great interest to scholars and students of history of economics, political economy, and philosophy of social science.
Table of Contents
Contents
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Introduction: The counter-revolution of neoliberalism
This book's contents
1 Foucault and beyond
1.1 Foucault's distinction between liberalism and neoliberalism
1.2 The neo-Marxist conception of neoliberalism
1.3 The relationship between state action and economy
1.4 Neoliberalism and the question of systemic complexity
2 The building of economics as a science
2.1 The revolution of marginalism: how political economy became economics
2.2 General economic equilibrium and econometrics in the 1930s: from Vienna to Chicago
2.3 The Americanization of the discipline: building mainstream economics
2.4 The rise of neoliberalism in Chicago: the hegemonic role of both neoliberalism and neoclassical economics
3 The building of individuals as rational agents
3.1 Economic rationality and homo oeconomicus: from Vienna and Lausanne to Chicago
3.2 The theoretical and methodological distance between Vienna and Chicago
3.3 Karl Polanyi's critique of neoliberalism
4 Turning the world into a firm
4.1 Neoliberalism and the political role of the firm
4.2 The neoliberal theory of organizations
4.3 Institutions, evolution and the frame of individual choices: or, farewell from the neoclassic nuts and bolts
Postscript: A new ethics for a new liberalism?
Index
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