From being a backyard of US influence where the practice of
neoliberal policy mostly caused non-sustained economic recovery, with consequences of rising inequality and poverty- the example of Chile where the 'Chicago boys' caused havoc through policy is quite popular and hard to miss- could only be corrected once many of the countries there brought a balance between a) aggregate demand and supply policies, b) role of public and private sectors, c) fiscal and monetary policies, and all of this to ensure that economic institutional quality improved both in the process of implementing these policies and also through these economic policies themselves.
The second section of
Neoliberal Gothic engages in the analysis of Gothic texts that interrogate neoliberalist views on the body and its marketability in areas of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
His presentation of the history of trade liberalization as a distinctively
neoliberal project is symptomatic.
In her 2005 seminal article, Hester Eisenstein claims that feminist vocabulary of women's personal empowerment has been used to facilitate
neoliberal globalization.
Privatisation, a key plank of
neoliberal economics, was thus enforced by the IMF through dictated secret prescriptions.
However,
neoliberal policies today reinforce the gap between the rich and the poor by redistributing wealth to the most powerful and wealthy.
The first is student fees and loans, which can seem like a logical implementation of
neoliberal principles.
In doing so, it reifies white and class privilege and heteronormativity, lending itself not only to
neoliberal but also neo-conservative agendas.
Both the state and the media internalize
neoliberal logics.
The editors of
Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance, Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod, have pulled together a collection of articles focusing on precarious work through the lens of ethnography (interpreted broadly).