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Brief History of Neoliberalism

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ISBN-10: 0199283273

ISBN-13: 9780199283279

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Harvey

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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…    
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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written numerous books including Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud…    

Introduction1. Freedom's Just Another Word . . .2. The Construction of Consent3. The Neoliberal State4. Uneven Geographical Developments5. Neoliberalism with 'Chinese Characteristics'6. Neoliberalism on Trial7. Freedom's ProspectNotesBibliographyIndex