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- Dictionaryneoliberal/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈlɪb(ə)rəl/
adjective
- 1. favouring policies that promote free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending: "neoliberal economists"
noun
- 1. an advocate or supporter of free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending: "neoliberals believe that business is often overregulated and welfare is underregulated"
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8 hours ago · Discourse analysis stands in stark contrast to the more rationalist approaches, such as neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism. These approaches, related to scientific positivism, emphasize self-interest, rational actors, material factors, objectivity, and causal hypotheses.
8 hours ago · This is the basis of the neoliberal straitjacket we are just beginning to wriggle out of. As Lisa Hertzog argues in her book, Citizen knowledge: Markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy , “Complex modern societies need different mechanisms for dealing with knowledge, instead of relying on the market mechanism alone.”
8 hours ago · Julia Sudbury attributes this ‘global lockdown’ of women of colour incarcerated for drug offences to four key factors: the ‘racialized feminisation of poverty under neoliberal globalisation’; the racialised ‘tough on crime’ policies in countries such as the UK and United States; the transnational War on Drugs; and the global spread of the ‘prison industrial complex’ (168).
8 hours ago · An entrepreneur ( French: [ɑ̃tʁəpʁənœʁ]) is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. [1] The process of setting up a business is known as "entrepreneurship". The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services ...
8 hours ago · Most notably, the decision in December 1978 introduced the reform and opening-up policy, which allowed foreign companies to operate in China. The third plenary sessions in 1993 and 2013 are also considered milestones on the road to a Chinese-style market economy. Institutional reform and the formulation of landmark decisions have since been ...
8 hours ago · A neoliberal policy of disaggregation from centralized bureaucratic control and towards community governance, in favour of competition and consumer choice, gave way inevitably to the re-imposition of centralized control and accountability through reformed assessment systems.
8 hours ago · Conrad’s story suggests that blind belief is decisively disrupted by contact with something (“ primitive nature and primitive man”) that shakes the composure and confidence of so-called ...
