Libro The Sovereign Consumer: A new Intellectual History of Neoliberalism (Consumption and Public Life) De Niklas Olsen

portada The Sovereign Consumer: A new Intellectual History of Neoliberalism (Consumption and Public Life)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Palgrave Macmillan

Autor

Niklas Olsen

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

308

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9783319895833

N° edición

Categorías

Economía política

The Sovereign Consumer: A new Intellectual History of Neoliberalism (Consumption and Public Life)

Niklas Olsen (Autor) · Palgrave Macmillan · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "The Sovereign Consumer: A new Intellectual History of Neoliberalism (Consumption and Public Life)"

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in the interwar period, this figure has been crucial to the construction and legimitization of neoliberal ideology and politics.Analysis of the sovereign consumer across time and space demonstrates how neoliberals have linked the figure both to the idea of democracy as a method of choice, and also to a re-invention of the market as the democratic forum par excellence. Moreover, Olsen contemplates how the sovereign consumer has served to marketize politics and functioned as a major driver in a wide-ranging transformation in political thinking, subjecting traditional political values to the narrow pursuit of economic growth. A politically timely project, The Sovereign Consumer will have a wide appeal in academic circles, especially for those interested in consumer and welfare studies, and in political, economic and cultural thought in the twentieth century.