Steger, Manfred B., 1961-

Neoliberalism : a very short introduction / Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xvi, 150 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm. - Very short introductions ; 222. . - Very short introductions ; 222. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. What's 'neo' about liberalism? -- 2. First-wave neoliberalism in the 1980s : Reagonomics and Thatcherism -- 3. Second-wave neoliberalism in the 1990s : Clinton's market globalism and Blair's Third Way -- 4. Neoliberalism and Asian development -- 5. Neoliberalism in Latin America and Africa -- 6. Crises of neoliberalism : the 2000s and beyond.

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.

9780199560516 (pbk.) 019956051X (pbk.)

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Neoliberalism.
Free enterprise.

330.122 / .S817 2010