The Origins of Neoliberalism

Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault

Bibliographic Data

ID19947276
AuthorsDotan Leshem (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages248
Publication date2016-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOrigins of Neoliberalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherColumbia University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7312/lesh17776
OpenAlexW2523188826
Open LibraryOL29310747M
ISBN9780231541749
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and economics closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christianity's engagement with economic knowledge and the influence of this interaction on politics and philosophy. He then follows the secularization of economics in liberal and neoliberal theory, showing it to be a perversion of earlier communitarian tradition. Only by radically relocating the origins of modernity in late antiquity, Leshem argues, can we confront neoliberalism

Economics · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Political Economy and Marxism · History · Liberalism · Religious aspects

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