The adoption of neoliberal policies in the Western world has run concurrently with a rise in inequality in both wealth and income. Whileskilled workersmay be in a position to command higher wages, low-skilled workers are more likely to see stagnant wages. Policies associated with neoliberalism are...
Neoliberal economic policies stress two fundamentals of capitalism: deregulation—the removal of government control over industry—and privatization—the transfer of ownership, property, or business from the government to the private sector. Historic examples of deregulated industries in the U.S. include ...
In many countries the neoliberal policies caused the rise of the critique of progressive planning, ranging from arguments against spatial planning to variety of positions that accept some form of intervention in certain contexts. The changes in the planning legislation and institutions, although define ...
despite Thatcherism being the modern incarnation of it and Boris’s agenda being an unimaginable extreme version. However, commenters here should be wary because they are doing the same dumb thing: being incredibly promiscuous in their labelling of everything everywhere as ‘neoliberal’. One can fi...
In the 2000s the term “neoliberalism” became the most common name for the current form of capitalism and/or the ideas and policies associated with it. While From the book The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism Chapters in this book (16) Frontmatter Contents List of Figures and ...
provision including prison management, employment assistance, and hospital services [10]. Competition may improve quality in normal markets. However, there are costs involved with implementing reforms, and it has been argued that pro-competive policies are not a solution, and may even cause harm [...
Kishida has outlined his vision for a "new form of capitalism" which will "achieve a virtuous economic cycle by raising the incomes of not just a certain segment, but of a broader range of people to trigger consumption." He also suggests steering away from "neoliberal" economic policies and...
The crisis, its recessionary consequences, bank bailouts and the adoption of 'austerity' measures can be seen as a continuation of a 40-year uncontrolled experiment in neoliberal economics. Although public spending and recapitalisation of failing banks helped prevent a 1930s-style Great , the deep...
Currently, not only are neoliberal policies portraying schools as failing, cultural and political conservatives are pushing to remove from schools any books that present anything other than what they think reflects ‘critical race theory’. Consequently, because they are one of the few places that ...
Chinese students represent a substantial portion of the UK university student population, with most of them being postgraduates. However, whilst the UK rem