Barnett, Clive
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Abstract
This chapter examines the way in which neoliberalism is conceptualized in human geography. It argues that, in theorizing neoliberalism as `a political project’, critical human geographers have ended up reproducing the same problem that they ascribe to the ideas they take to be driving forces behind contemporary transformations: they reduce the social to a residual effect of more fundamental political-economic rationalities. Proponents of free markets think that people should act like utility-maximizing rational egoists, despite much evidence that they don't. Critics of neoliberalism tend to assume that increasingly people do act like this, but they think that they ought not to. For critics, this is what's wrong with neoliberalism. And it is precisely this evaluation that suggests that there is something wrong with how neoliberalism is theorized in critical human geography.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2010 Clive Barnett |
| ISBN: | 1-4129-3559-8, 978-1-4129-3559-3 |
| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Geography |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 20191 |
| Depositing User: | Clive Barnett |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2010 11:14 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2012 15:19 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/20191 |
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