TY - BOOK AU - Steger,Manfred B. AU - Roy,Ravi K. TI - Neoliberalism: a very short introduction T2 - Very short introductions SN - 9780199560516 (pbk.) U1 - 330.122 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Neoliberalism KW - Free enterprise N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -