Neolib mischief ...the weight (BE.411)

[alice malice]

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "no" was all he said.


Neoliberalism enters this picture at the end of the Cold War as "a reactive
force that exploited" the knowledge produced in an earlier and less rigid
transnational dialogue on markets. Bockman argues that neoliberal thinkers
and institutions, in sympathy with "transnational capitalist interests,"
co-opted these heterogenous intellectual conversations into a simplistic
narrative of the inevitability of corporate capitalism. She defines
neoliberalism as the simultaneous advocacy of "competitive markets,
smaller, authoritarian states, hierarchical firms, management, and owners,
and capitalism," and her goal is to show the reader that these component
pieces are logically separable. The dramatic transition of 1989, which many
intellectuals expected would begin a novel age of market socialist
experimentation, was successfully rebranded as the corporate capitalist
terminus to all of history. Thus, her lesson about "the origins of
neoliberalism" is a negative one: neoliberalism is not the same as support
for markets or the pricing mechanism, nor is it congenitally linked to
neoclassical economics.




http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/spontaneous-order-looking-back-at-neoliberalism


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHWuChqSQPw&noredirect=1
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