
This book describes the genealogy of neoliberalism as the construction of a weapon of ideological consensus and an instrument of macroeconomic management and microeconomic management of the company and the State. Far from being a natural adaptation and a technically neutral response to the difficulties experienced by Western economies and the development strategies of the global South after the crisis of the 1970s, David Harvey demonstrates how neoliberalism was blunt and articulate political response conceived by the global ruling classes to discipline and restore the operating parameters considered "reasonable" after the wave of struggles that swept the planet after World War II. According to Harvey's analysis, the objective of neoliberalism was to modify the political balance and the relationship of forces existing in the capitalist world economy as a whole by resorting to the enti...read more