The Neoliberal Age?
Britain Since the 1970s
Edited by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson, and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
University College London, 2021
A new history of British neoliberalism that looks beyond right-wing actors.
The rise of British neoliberalism—a renewed emphasis on privatization and market-oriented economics—over the last fifty years is often characterized as the product of right-wing political economists, think tanks, and politicians. The Neoliberal Age? argues that this pat narrative ignores broader forces in British left-wing culture that collaborated to transform twentieth-century social life. Through a variety of case studies, the authors demonstrate that our austere, individualistic age emerged from more complex sociopolitical negotiations than typically described.
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