The Sovereign Consumer : A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism Paperback / softback
by Niklas Olsen
Part of the Consumption and Public Life series
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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 welfarestudies, and in political, economic and cultural thought in the twentieth century.
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- Pages:308 pages, X, 308 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:01/02/2019
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- ISBN:9783030078089
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages, X, 308 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:01/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030078089
