Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780199283279
ISBN: 0199283273
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 254
Publication Date: January 18, 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 5703
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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 many oppositional movements.





Rating: - our goose is cooked
so this is how the rich and powerful do it! what will be taken away from the ordinary citizen during and after this current financial crisis? I doubt there is any way for the small fry to oppose the entrenched powers that rule our lives, our country and the world. To oppose the rulers is to be labeled "un-American", "un-patriotic", "socialist" and worse. The top 1% will NEVER let their power slip away. We're toast.

Read this book and see why we can't win.

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Rating: - Another superb book from David Harvey
I'm going to do something here that I rarely do: attempt a short review. There are many excellent reviews of this fine book that I don't need to add much except to say that I agree with the bulk of them. I believe that neoliberal ideas have caused incalculable harm over the course of the last several decades. There are signs of increasingly wide discontent and distrust of the kinds of economic prognostications put forward by people like Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan (admittedly not a great economic ... Read More

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Rating: - Good Review of Neoliberalism in the US
A good review of the development of neoliberal ideology in public opinion, government policies and global relationships

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Rating: - Neoliberalism is Libertarianism;it is directly opposed to A Smith's approach
Harvey(H) has written an interesting book that ,unfortunately,confuses neoliberalism(libertarianism)with conservatism.This erroneous view is at center stage in the book whenever Adam Smith's name shows up in the discussions.H is badly mistaken when he claims that Smith's view was that "...the hidden hand of the market was the best device for mobilizing even the basest of human instincts..."(Harvey,p.20)such as greed.Smith's view was heavily qualified- in many cases such an approach would work but in ... Read More

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Rating: - Basic to understanding current politics
This is a very rich book. The subject, neoliberalism, must be understood if we are to understand current politics. Harvey's other books--those I have in mind being THE NEW IMPERALIASM, LIMITS TO CAPITAL, THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY--are equally illuminating. What I write here, I admit, does not constitute a review of the book, neither summarizing its contents or approach, nor offering any criticisms; it is merely an assurance that your study of this book (which I am on my second reading of after having ... Read More

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