..., which is at the core of the endist discourse today, and argue that it serves as a smoke screen that distracts from fundamental problems at the heart of global capitalism and its supporting ideology of neoliberalism. We argue that the transformations ushered in by the pandemic and the political response...

... the question of whether the political promotion of these civic-engagement phenomena is predominantly a neoliberal strategy of “exploitative crisis management” (van Dyk and Haubner 2021, 152) or rather an emancipatory achievement on the path to a decommodified “post-employment” society—and how one...

... has taken both neoliberal and illiberal directions. The legitimizing function of racial and sexual equity is why neoliberalism has happily embraced the multicultural agenda, at least in its diluted form of diversity and antidiscrimination (to be discussed below). Already one of neoliberalism’s...

... it can be. Beyond that, I have three more questions: Why has the Left in nearly all of the older democracies succumbed to neoliberalism (at least, until very recently)? Is there no substitute for neoliberalism? If not, why can’t authorities use incentives —which are the key behavioral tool...

...Lea David This short piece discusses the historical-sociological relationship between neoliberalism and quantification of data during the corona pandemic crisis. However, statistical inference is used as a preeminent mechanism for certifying findings as impersonal and objective (Porter 1995...

...Lars Cornelissen In this essay, I interrogate the racialized roots of the early neoliberal conception of (Western) civilization. I do so by placing that conception in a broader genealogy of early Austrian economic theory, focusing in particular on the writings of Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk...

...Thomas Biebricher; Martin Beddeleem Martin Beddeleem, member of the Global Perspectives Emerging Scholars Forum, talk about Thomas Biebricher’s book on the political theory of neoliberalism as well as Biebricher’s article in Global Perspectives, teasing out links between neoliberal thought...

...Tobias Rupprecht Neoliberalism was a global spectrum of ideas on how to create and preserve free markets in an age of popular sovereignty. A notion of a powerful state to create the institutions and mentalities needed for a liberal market society, and—if need be—to fend off potentially antiliberal...

...Martin Beddeleem Nevertheless there remained, from the start, a clear antidemocratic slant to the neoliberal thinking on political change. Neoliberals imagined that their ideas needed to inform democratic aspirations, not the other way around. They belittled the cognitive capacity of the common...

...Monique Mann This article presents a detailed case study of “RoboDebt” in Australia and examines the political rationalities that underpin automated welfare surveillance systems. First, it is argued that neoliberal political rationalities shape the bureaucratic strategies enacted by agencies...

...Isabella Weber China is found both to be neoliberal and to provide an alternative to neoliberal development. To illuminate the origins of this contradiction, this paper analyzes China’s relationship with neoliberalism from a historical and economic theory perspective. Neoliberal economic thinking...

...Thomas Biebricher In the larger public debate, it is often suggested that neoliberalism has been swept aside by an upsurge of what are commonly referred to as right-wing populist movements, parties, and figures but are, in fact, authoritarian ones. It is the more or less explicit assumption...