The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. Its proclaimed purpose is to reduce global poverty, its protocols are derived from the orthodox theory of competitive free markets and its policies are enforced by the full weight of the rich countries and global institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This book is a critical examination of this ongoing enterprise, of its history, theory, practice, and most of all, of its outcomes.
An international team of...
The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. Its proclaimed purpose is to reduce global povert...
The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. This text is a critical examination of this ongoing enterprise, of its history, theory, practice, and most of all, of its outcomes.
The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. This text is a critical examination of this ongoing ...
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by imperfect competition. But this only ties them to the notion of perfect competition, which remains as their point of departure and base of comparison. There is no imperfection without perfection. In...
Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly opti...
