Neoliberalism

neoliberal ideology often promotes a “free market” ideology that inevitably influences the government to overlook regulations that control the power and influence of corporations over the state. These are important issues that define the failure of neoliberalism to promote the greater good for the average citizen, while encouraging the massive accrual of wealth and power in the hands of few powerful capitalist…

The primary thesis of this paper is that Neoliberal Economic Principles do not yield the highest productivity in corporations, and this system must be altered. This research is important for workers to understand because they are directly affected by this principle. Neoliberal work practices are becoming prevalent in almost all corporations in America. Its basis rests on the belief that economic productivity increases when there are no regulations on the market, and workers are utilized to the…

World War II became the remedy to solve this economic crisis, developing a conservative opposition to slowly increase, forming the emergence of neoliberalism. Many conservatives believed that the New Deal possessed socialist ideals, serving as an abusive hindrance to a free-market economy. In addition, these individuals criticized this form of liberalism asserting that it undermined the country’s traditional…

drained resources from productive enterprises (GML 1028). This revival of the Gilded Age economic liberalism ideology was termed neoliberalism. Neoliberalists advocated for free market economics, weakening of union control, cutting public expenditure for social services, especially welfare and extensive deregulation. It is important to note that prevalence of neoliberalism was substantially driven by grassroots campaigns from citizen groups (Lecture 15). These include the tax revolt campaign…

Lester Spence examines the predominance of neoliberalism in Black communities. He challenges policies over the last forty years, which produced profit under the guise of community development. Spence finds that the neoliberal policies have the worse impact on Black communities. This paper will argue that because of the idea of the hustle, charter schools, and Black political actors, urban Black communities remain tied to poverty because neoliberalism deprives dependent communities of resources…

nism (Pieper) and neoliberal capitalism (Thornton). In an effort to curb the spread the spread of communism in Latin America, the US supported brutal dictatorships that opposed socialist and communist values. The US was afraid of a Latin American communist state emerging so close to US borders (McConnell). Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba is the quintessential example of US’s fears on Latin American communism. After Fulgencio Batista’s pro-American dictatorship was disposed by Castro, Cuba was…

Have Curves and Reyna Grande’s Across a Hundred Mountains we can gain insight into how economic systems like neoliberalism have shaped and continue to shape the lives of Mexican and Chicana women. López writes about undocumented Chicana workers living in East LA in the mid to late nineteen eighties, a time when the United States was transitioning into the late capitalist system of neoliberalism. Grande, on the other hand, focuses on an impoverished rural family suffering under the economic…

Midterm Essay Structural violence occurs when social forces harm or create a disadvantage for people. Neoliberalism is a key part of causing structural violence. In Haiti, this concept causes the impoverished communities to lack in agency, resort to risky behaviours, and endure the tyranny of the powerful military men. The result of structural violence is an increase in health disparities and untimely deaths among Haitians. In Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power, Acephie Joseph and Chouchou Louis…

Neoliberalism rose to the fore of development discourse in the 1980’s and focused on enabling market forces to drive development and liberalise and privatise economies to achieve a core goal of economic growth (Pieterse, 2010). Placing economic growth at a national…

more crucial definitions that Williamson provides in his historical overview are the usage of the term Washington Consensus when referring to the Bretton Woods institutions (World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund) and neoliberalism or market fundamentalism. The former tend to describe the policies of those institutions along those of the US towards client countries. The later does not seem to reflect the original meaning and it only remains for Williamson to add that…