Series Editors Introduction; Contents; Contributors; Chapter-1; Introduction: Language, Social Order, and Neoliberal Violence; Modes of Degradation; Existence Within the Machine; No Exit; New Inspiration; Conclusion; References; Chapter-2; The Language of Current Economics: Social Theory, the Market, and the Disappearance of Relationships; Nominalists and Fragmentation; Realism and Domination; The Market and Society; The Overlooked In-Between; Conclusion; References; Chapter-3; Neoliberalism and Education: The Disfiguration of Students; A Quick Look at Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism and Public Education in the USAMoving Forward with Dignity: Rethinking the World Through Education; References; Chapter-4; The Entrepreneur as Hero?; The Hero's and the Heroic Adventure; Entrepreneurship: Its Markings and Process; The Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker; The Twenty-First-Century Odyssey; Entrepreneurship and the Global Knowledge-Based Economy; Critique of Entrepreneurship; The Narrative; References; Chapter-5; Neoliberalism and the Production of Enemies: The Commercial Logic of Yahoo! News; Theories of Media and News Production; Yahoo! News and Internet Advertising

Selling ProductsSelling Partisanship; Internet News and Commercialized Media; Conclusion; References; Chapter-6; Slicing Up Societies: Commercial Media and the Destruction of Social Environments; The Political Economy of Violent Media Content; Commercial Media and Symbolic Violence; References; Chapter-7; Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Work; Progressivism and the Roaring Twenties; Keynesianism, the Welfare State, and the "Golden Age of Controlled Capitalism" (1940s-1970s); Neoliberalism and the Business Rebellion

1980s-2010s: Reaganism, NAFTA and Welfare Reform, and Corporate/Business HegemonyNeoliberalism and the Normalization of Violence Against Working People; Wage Stagnation, Unaffordability, and Job/Economic Insecurity: The Rise of the Precariat; Attack on Labor Unions: Making Workers Defenseless Against Employers; Globalization, Automation, and Disposability; Job Loss and Subjective Well-Being; The Rise of the Neoliberal Penal State; Conclusion: Challenging Neoliberal Violence; References; Chapter-8

Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Spread of Economic Violence: The Framework of Civilizational AnalysisNeoliberal Economics: The Great Achievement?; Globalization and Neoliberalism: The Perspective of Civilizations; Globalization, Democracy, and Technical Expertise; Critique of Globalization and the "Founding" of Social Order; Postscript; Suggested Readings ; Chapter-9; Economics, the Network Society, and the Ontology of Violence; The Network Society and Global Capitalism; The Centered Ontology of the Network Society; Network Ontology and Market Logic; The Dissolution of the Social Bond