What is Neoliberalism? Different Views on a Complex Subject

Seminar Readings:

Daniel Rodgers, The Uses and Abuses of Neoliberalism, Dissent (winter) 2018 (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/uses-and-abuses-neoliberalism-debate/

Wilson, Julie A., Neoliberalism (New York/London, 2018), pp. 1-18

Suthcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence, Davies, Davies, Alec, Jackson, Ben (eds.), The Neoliberal Age? Britain Since the 1970s (2021), Introduction (library online resources), pp. 1-29.

Further Readings:

Harvey, David, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Keating, AnaLouise, Transformation Now! Towards a Postoppositional Politics of Change (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2012).

Foucault, Michel, ‘So Is It Really Important to Think?’, in The Essential Foucault, ed. by Paul Rabinour and Niklas Rose (New York: The New Press, 1994).

Steger, Manfred/Roy, Ravi, Neoliberalism, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Cahill, Damien/Konings, Martijn, Neoliberalism, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018), pp. 1-18.

 

Seminar Questions:

What can neoliberalism mean?

'Neoliberalism is simply an economic theory'. Discuss.