Erica Hu
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It was a way of reordering social reality, and of rethinking our status as individuals.
Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world | Economic policy | The Guardianhelped shape the ideal of society as a kind of universal market (and not, for example, a polis, a civil sphere or a kind of family) and of human beings as profit-and-loss calculators (and not bearers of grace, or of inalienable rights and duties
Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world | Economic policy | The GuardianIn short, “neoliberalism” is not simply a name for pro-market policies, or for the compromises with finance capitalism made by failing social democratic parties. It is a name for a premise that, quietly, has come to regulate all we practise and believe: that competition is the only legitimate organising principle for human activity.
Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world | Economic policy | The Guardian