The Origins of Neoliberalism

Contents

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Introduction: The counter-revolution of neoliberalism

This book's contents

1 Foucault and beyond

1.1 Foucault's distinction between liberalism and neoliberalism

1.2 The neo-Marxist conception of neoliberalism

1.3 The relationship between state action and economy

1.4 Neoliberalism and the question of systemic complexity

2 The building of economics as a science

2.1 The revolution of marginalism: how political economy became economics

2.2 General economic equilibrium and econometrics in the 1930s: from Vienna to Chicago

2.3 The Americanization of the discipline: building mainstream economics

2.4 The rise of neoliberalism in Chicago: the hegemonic role of both neoliberalism and neoclassical economics

3 The building of individuals as rational agents

3.1 Economic rationality and homo oeconomicus: from Vienna and Lausanne to Chicago

3.2 The theoretical and methodological distance between Vienna and Chicago

3.3 Karl Polanyi's critique of neoliberalism

4 Turning the world into a firm

4.1 Neoliberalism and the political role of the firm

4.2 The neoliberal theory of organizations

4.3 Institutions, evolution and the frame of individual choices: or, farewell from the neoclassic nuts and bolts

Postscript: A new ethics for a new liberalism?

Index