The Market Can’t Be Tamed
In the post-war era, liberals abandoned the cause of a truly democratic economy in favour of trying to curbs the excesses of the market – and in the process, gave up any prospect of real social equality.
3 Articles by:
Daniel Zamora
Daniel Zamora is a postdoctoral sociologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Cambridge University.
How Neoliberalism Created the Populist Backlash
By empowering the market to erode social institutions, neoliberalism set up a backlash against citizens being downgraded to mere consumers.
How Neoliberalism Reinvented Democracy
Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer — pushing people out of political life and into the marketplace.