The Neoliberal Age?
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets, and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven to be highly controversial, wi...
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| description | The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets, and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven to be highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political/public debate. Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics. According to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks, and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. The Neoliberal Age? suggests this narrative is too simplistic. Where the standard story sees neoliberalism as right-wing, this book points to some left-wing origins, too. Where the standard story emphasises the agency of think-tanks and politicians, this book shows that other actors from the corporate world were also highly significant. Where the standard story can suggest that neoliberalism transformed subjectivities and social lives, this book shows other forces which helped make Britain more individualistic in the late twentieth century. The analysis thus takes neoliberalism seriously but also shows that it cannot be the only explanatory framework for understanding contemporary Britain, and that ‘neoliberal’ cannot be the only descriptor used to categorise Britain in the past 50 years. The book showcases cutting-edge research, making it useful to researchers and students, as well as to those interested in understanding the forces that have shaped our recent past. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-747552025-07-30T11:55:10Z The Neoliberal Age? Davies, Aled Jackson, Ben Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence history political science neoliberalism politics British history economics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets, and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven to be highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political/public debate. Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics. According to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks, and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. The Neoliberal Age? suggests this narrative is too simplistic. Where the standard story sees neoliberalism as right-wing, this book points to some left-wing origins, too. Where the standard story emphasises the agency of think-tanks and politicians, this book shows that other actors from the corporate world were also highly significant. Where the standard story can suggest that neoliberalism transformed subjectivities and social lives, this book shows other forces which helped make Britain more individualistic in the late twentieth century. The analysis thus takes neoliberalism seriously but also shows that it cannot be the only explanatory framework for understanding contemporary Britain, and that ‘neoliberal’ cannot be the only descriptor used to categorise Britain in the past 50 years. The book showcases cutting-edge research, making it useful to researchers and students, as well as to those interested in understanding the forces that have shaped our recent past. 2021-12-09T04:02:18Z 2021-12-09T04:02:18Z 2021-12-08T12:16:30Z 2021 book ONIX_20211208_9781787356856_62 OCN: 1288446631 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51830 9781787356856 9781787356863 9781787356870 9781787356887 9781787356894 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74755 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51830/1/9781787356856.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51830/1/9781787356856.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51830/1/9781787356856.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51830/1/9781787356856.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781787356856 10.14324/111.9781787356856 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781787356856 9781787356863 9781787356870 9781787356887 9781787356894 UCL Press London open access |
| spellingShingle | history political science neoliberalism politics British history economics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory The Neoliberal Age? |
| title | The Neoliberal Age? |
| title_full | The Neoliberal Age? |
| title_fullStr | The Neoliberal Age? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Neoliberal Age? |
| title_short | The Neoliberal Age? |
| title_sort | neoliberal age |
| topic | history political science neoliberalism politics British history economics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory |
| topic_facet | history political science neoliberalism politics British history economics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory |
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