Neoliberalism : a very short introduction /

In its heyday in the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm. But the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 fundamentally shocked a globalized economy built on neoliberal assumptions. This introduction examines the origins, core claims, & considerable vari...

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Main Authors: Steger, Manfred B., 1961
Group Author: Roy, Ravi K., 1969
Published:
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Very short introductions ; 222
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Summary: In its heyday in the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm. But the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 fundamentally shocked a globalized economy built on neoliberal assumptions. This introduction examines the origins, core claims, & considerable variations of neoliberalism.
Carrier Form: xvi, 150 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-144) and index.
ISBN: 9780199560516 (pbk.)
019956051X (pbk.)
Index Number: HB95
CLC: F091.352
Call Number: F091.352/S817
Contents: What's 'neo' about liberalism? -- First-wave neoliberalism in the 1980s : Reagonomics and Thatcherism -- Second-wave neoliberalism in the 1990s : Clinton's market globalism and Blair's Third Way -- Neoliberalism and Asian development -- Neoliberalism in Latin America and Africa -- Crises of neoliberalism : the 2000s and beyond.