Our list of some of the best Neoliberalism books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2007)
- In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (The Wellek Library Lectures) (2019)
- Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction (2010)
- Neoliberalism (Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies) (2017)
- Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital (2018)
- The Political Theory of Neoliberalism (Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times) (2019)
- Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone / Near Futures) (2017)
- Economics after Neoliberalism (Boston Review / Forum) (2019)
- Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (California Series in Public Anthropology) (2014)
- The Political Economy of Latin America (2018)
- Neoliberalism (Key Concepts) (2017)
- In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence (2008)
- Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order (1998)
- Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Zone / Near Futures) (2019)
- Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (2014)
A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2007)
Neoliberalism–the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action–has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage.
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (The Wellek Library Lectures) (2019)
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values.
Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction (2010)
Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, “neoliberalism” has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi.
Neoliberalism (Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies) (2017)
Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliberalism has become somewhat of an academic buzzword in recent years, this book offers a rich and multilayered introduction to what is arguably the most pressing issue of our times.
Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital (2018)
By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda. Neoliberalism’s Demons argues that it is much more than that: a complete worldview, neoliberalism presents the competitive marketplace as the model for true human flourishing.
The Political Theory of Neoliberalism (Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times) (2019)
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary for understanding the varieties of capitalism across space and time.
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone / Near Futures) (2017)
Neoliberal rationality―ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture―remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled.
Economics after Neoliberalism (Boston Review / Forum) (2019)
Bringing together thirty-two world-class economists, Economics After Neoliberalism offers a powerful case for a new brand of economics―one focused on power and inequality and aimed at a more inclusive society.
Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (California Series in Public Anthropology) (2014)
Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. What started as an untested and unproven theory that the creation of unfettered markets would give rise to political democracy led to policies that promoted the belief that private markets were the optimal agents for the distribution of social goods, including health care.
The Political Economy of Latin America (2018)
This brief text offers an unbiased reflection on debates about neoliberalism and its alternatives in Latin America with an emphasis on the institutional puzzle that underlies the region’s difficulties with democratization and development.
Neoliberalism (Key Concepts) (2017)
For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now – more than ever – under scrutiny from critics who argue that it has failed to live up to its promises, creating instead an increasingly unequal and insecure world.
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence (2008)
In an Abusive State puts forth a powerful argument: that the feminist campaign to stop sexual violence has entered into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state. Kristin Bumiller chronicles the evolution of this alliance by examining the history of the anti-violence campaign, the production of cultural images about sexual violence, professional discourses on intimate violence, and the everyday lives of battered women.
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order (1998)
Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance?
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Zone / Near Futures) (2019)
Why was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a profound influence on American political life? Why have free-market neoliberals so often made common cause with social conservatives on the question of family, despite their differences on all other issues?
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (2014)
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play and charts a clear-minded and inspired course of action out of the shadows of market-driven education policy.
Best Neoliberalism Books You Must Read
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Feminisms in the Nordic Region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique
Author(s): Suvi Keskinen, Pauline Stoltz, Diana Mulinari
ID: 2888967, Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2021, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Dictators, Dictatorship And The African Novel: Fictions Of The State Under Neoliberalism
Author(s): Robert Spencer
ID: 2929764, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2021, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education : Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility
Author(s): Spyros Themelis
ID: 2930996, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2021, Size: 11 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly best-sellers according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.