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.
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Niklas Olsen
Niklas Olsen is associate professor in history and chair of the Centre of Modern European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of The Sovereign Consumer: A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism.
How Neoliberalism Reinvented Democracy
Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer — pushing people out of political life and into the marketplace.