Neoliberalism :

By: Steger, Manfred B, 1961-Contributor(s): Roy, Ravi K, 1969-Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductions ; 222.Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xvi, 150 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cmISBN: 9780199560516 (pbk.); 019956051X (pbk.)Subject(s): Neoliberalism | Free enterpriseDDC classification: 330.122
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.