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Title
The age of crisis : neoliberalism, the collapse of democracy, and the pandemic / Alfredo Saad-Filho.
ISBN
9783030816087 (electronic bk.)
3030816087 (electronic bk.)
3030816079
9783030816070
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 241 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-81608-7 doi
Call Number
JC574
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.513
Summary
This book offers an economic analysis of the causes, development, and likely consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for global neoliberalism. The analysis will draw upon the authors previous work on neoliberalism, and on its twin crises: the economic crisis (the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), ongoing since 2007) and, subsequently, the crisis of political democracy that has been associated with the rise of spectacular authoritarian leaders in several countries. The approach is grounded on Marxist political economy. The book argues that the Covid-19 pandemic emerges out of this context of deep inequalities and crises in the economy and in politics, and it is likely to reinforce the exclusionary tendencies of neoliberalism, with detrimental implications both for economic prosperity and for democracy. In turn, the pandemic has revealed the limitations of neoliberalism like never before, with implications for the legitimacy of capitalism itself, and opening unprecedented spaces for the left. This book will be of interest to academics in economics, international relations, political science, political economy, sociology and development studies. Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy and International Development at Kings College, London, UK.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part I. Neoliberalism, financialisation, and crisis. Neoliberalism, financialisation and their consequences
Economic instability and crises under neoliberalism
Part II. Neoliberalism and democracy. Political forms of neoliberalism
The crisis of neoliberal democracy
Part III. A pandemic with neoliberal characteristics. A neoliberal health crisis
Post-pandemic realities
Part IV. Case studies in disaster. A very neoliberal tragedy
The UK : a convergence of disasters
The USA : decentralisation and denial
Brazil : inequality and catastrophe
India : from hubris to disaster.
