Neoliberalism

large companies such as the world bank, IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the WTO (World Trade Organisation) tie in with globalisation and make a profit in keeping the global south poor and in debt to them since colonialism and introducing neoliberalism. The author argues that the global south will not be able to catch up in the race of globalisation unless the global north make an effort to reduce the debt along with rejecting the global north’s neoliberal policies that make it easier for…

One of the most prevalent trends of the 20th and 21st centuries has been the process of globalization. The effects of globalization have had great effects upon the field of economics, as increased interconnectedness globally has given rise to increasing international economic interaction. This interconnectedness brings with it an increased prevalence of neoliberal economic policies globally. The impacts of these policies upon developing economies in particular are a central area of analysis in…

Sexual Agency is not a Problem of Neoliberalism: Feminism, Sexual Justice, & the Carceral Turn is an essay written by Kari Lerum and Shari Dworkin in response to Bay-Cheng 's production of the Agency Line. Within their essay they critique the limitations and presumptions that Bay-Cheng makes in their own work, and suggest routes of deeper examination and possibility towards a more inclusive ideology. I will first summarize Lerum and Dworkin 's essay, and then position myself in dialogue with…

Liberalism, Conservatism, and Ideological Challenges to the Status Quo were topics covered in Chapter 4. Although high school I have heard of the term Liberalism, but I never understood what the term really meant. I learned that Liberalism is “an ideology that regards the individual as a rational being capable of overcoming obstacles to a better world.” Also, it “supports changes in the political and economic status quo.” John Locke an English philosopher is known for this form of American…

The neoliberalism is a political ideology which promotes a free market society and free market competition for labour and production. Neoliberalism is an ideology which is centre in exploiting labour and nature. (Kovel, 2007, p. 73). This form of thought renders democracy useless, where it takes away the rights and freedom that…

neoliberal economic reforms in nations like Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Ecuador. Neoliberalism is described as an economic ideology spreading throughout the world via international financial institutions and transnational corporate hegemony. The effects of this colonial phenomenon are especially acute in Latin America where many nations faced debt crises directly related to the international economic system . Neoliberalism allows the control the fiscal deficit, tax reform, and exchange rates.…

Neoliberalism ideologically enshrines individual liberty, free enterprise, and economic competition. Proponents of this laissez-faire model therefore argue that wealth trickles down to the bottom when economic regulations decrease. In practice, however, neoliberal economic policies greatly disadvantage the impoverished by consolidating the finite amount of financial resources within the world. Wealth certainly begets more wealth under neoliberal capitalism, yet only for those privileged and…

U.S. imperialism is based on a blatant paternalistic vision that they are, somehow, well placed to know what is best for the rest of the world. It rests on a political and economic combination of power that has always been about their profit rather than the world’s own good. During the cold war it claimed the need to stop communism from taking over and justified undemocratic regimes for this purpose. When even communism became insufficient to excuse dictatorships that had no regard for their…

Consumers are forced into believing that they are observers of the market and food production systems, however, they are the controllers. When we take into consideration the health of our environment, what our market is made up of matters more than the size of it and as consumers, we have the power to influence that. Our food system currently is made up of industrialized food, which feeds the majority of Americans, and non-industrialized food that feeds the few and elite. Non-industrialized food…

that addresses them as complete human beings rather than as future specialists that enables them, as I put it, to build a self or soul”(26). In other words the main value of education is how much money is put into education which is an example of Neoliberalism. Colleges support majors that have definite jobs after graduation so the world will have more producers. Deresiewicz asserts that colleges don’t support the more creative majors like anthropology or art because those types of majors don’t…