What is 'Neoliberalism', and How Does It Relate to Globalization? (original) (raw)

The scholarship on economic neoliberalism, its definition, proliferation, and effects, has been dominated by authors who are highly critical of the concepts underlying morality and effects on society (Boans and Gans-Morese 2009; Thorsen 2009). These authors argue that "[t]here has everywhere been an emphatic turn towards neoliberalism in politicaleconomic practices and thinking since the 1970s" (Harvey 2005:2-3) and that neoliberalism has "become hegemonic as a mode of discourse […] to the point where it has become incorporated into the commonsense way we […] understand the world" (Ibid. 2007:23).