This book is about the transformation of America that has occurred over the past thirty-five years, as capitalist logic has expanded into previously protected spheres of life. This expansion has had devastating effects on the potential for human development. Looking at how human beings create themselves and their worlds on material foundations of health and the natural environment, through work and politics, the book chronicles how neoliberalism has limited human potential. At a time when neoliberalism’s effects are stirring various forms of popular resistance and opposition, this is a manifesto of sorts for the range of processes that need to be confronted if human potential is to be freed from the increasingly cramped quarters to which neoliberalism has confined it.
Table of Content
List of figures and tables
1 Neoliberalism: a politics for yacht owners
2 Neoliberal work and incomes: nice for some
3 Every last molecule on earth: neoliberalism’s “nature”
4 Neoliberal health: US exceptionalism
5 Education: public good or finishing school?
6 Politics: a threadbare democracy
7 President Trump: the end of neoliberalism?
8 Conclusion
Index
About the author
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson are Professors in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba Mark Hudson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba
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