Neoliberalism, Economization and the Paradox of the New Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4180969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Laruffa (0000-0003-4240-8162, University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-163 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975622000169 |
| OpenAlex | W4220672345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 93 |
This paper theorizes the nature of neoliberal social policy, making three substantial contributions. First, processes of "economization" are identified as a central characteristic of neoliberalism: economization constitutes a "bridge" between Foucauldian and (neo-)Marxist accounts of neoliberalism - two perspectives that are in many respects hardly reconcilable - because extending the economic logic to non-economic areas (neoliberalism as a governmental rationality) also potentially increases the profit-making opportunities in previously uncommodified domains (neoliberalism as a capitalist project). Second, the paper links economization processes not only to projects of austerity and welfare retrenchment but also to the more generous "social investment" agenda. Third, the paper highlights the central paradox of neoliberal social policy, whereby higher degrees of economization are associated with more generous social policy: more "social" versions of neoliberalism are those that ironically downplay the social logic, transforming social policies into economic investments. The paper also discusses the problems related to economization in terms of de-democratization
Austerity · Neoliberalism (international relations · Retrenchment · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Health for all? From lifestyle risk to genomic governance
Introduction
Decomposing the Cerberus
Fare un passo di lato per farne due avanti
The logics of self-responsibility and moral selection
Missed opportunity
Rethinking the concept of investment and the future of work and welfare
Foetal programming meets human capital
Understanding the Nature-Wellbeing Relationship in Adults
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the Covid-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance
New models of housing and care
The Managerial Family? Family Care Work in Germany and Spain
From Policy to Practice
Upskilling the workforce? A critical analysis of national skills policies in China’s Reform Era
The neoliberalization of housing policy and social housing provision in the Nordics
The economics of human development, the new (old) ‘witches’, and the government of social reproduction
A greener future cannot be bought
Four phases of city-regionalism in China
Agriculture by Algorithm
Occult enemies of the market order
Making Sense of (Post)Neoliberalism
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism
Disease surveillance infrastructure and the economisation of public health
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies
The third way
Ökonomisierung der Gesellschaft
Neoliberalism
The Limits of Neoliberalism
Politics against Markets
New constitutionalism, democratisation and global political economy∗
Postface
Citizenship and Social Class
Why We Need a New Welfare State
European Welfare States Beyond Neoliberalism
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Welfare-state transformations
Changing Welfare States
Towards A Social Investment Welfare State?Ideas, Policies and Challenges
The Transformation of Citizenship?
New Risks, New Welfare
The Uses of Social Investment
Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism
Bonded Life
Finding the ‘Neo’ in Neoliberalism
Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy
Social impact bonds
New Labour or The Normalization of Neo-Liberalism
The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism
Diffusing Ideas for After Neoliberalism
Efficiency or compensation? The global economic crisis and the development of the European Union’s social policy
After Neo-Liberalism
The New Welfare State Settlement in Europe
Social Economy Policies as Flanking for Neoliberalism
The Welfare Conventions Approach
European governance and new constitutionalism
In the wake of austerity
Neoliberalism with a Feminist Face
A Critical Look to the Social Investment Approach from a Gender Perspective
The third way and the third world
The Lisbon strategy and the alignment of economic and social concerns
Towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State? Preliminary Remarks on Post-Fordist Political Economy
Neo-liberalism
Social impact bonds
Investable poverty
Financialisation of Valuation
Investing in the Citizen‐workers of the Future
Neoliberalizing Space
Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms
The Crises of Democratic Capitalism
Thinking Like an Economist
The politics of the new social policies
Michel Foucault and liberal intelligence
Brief History of Neoliberalism
American Nightmare
Neoliberalism as an object of political analysis
Austerity in the making
Liberal Democracy and Neoliberalism
Social investment as a policy paradigm
Paradoxes of the Competition State
Reforming Social Justice in Neoliberal Times
Neoliberalism as discourse
International regimes, transactions, and change
The Developmental State Is Dead-Long Live Social Capital
Six theories of neoliberalism
Great Transformation
The Crisis of the National Spatio-Temporal Fix and the Tendential Ecological Dominance of Globalizing Capitalism
What is neo-liberalism
Taking capitalism seriously
Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics
How to Study Contemporary Capitalism
Rethinking neoliberalism
From Authoritarian Liberalism to Economic Technocracy
Thirteen Things You Need to Know About Neoliberalism
Financial Derivatives as Social Policy beyond Crisis
Harnessing the Social
A Common Neoliberal Trajectory
Cents and Sensibility
The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed
Government, authority and expertise in advanced liberalism
Liberal government and techniques of the self
The promotion of the social∗
The prospects of egalitarian capitalism in the global South
Neoliberalism as concept
Economization, part 2
Economization, part 1
The age of responsibilization
The normalizing role of rationalist assumptions in the institutional embedding of neoliberalism
Liberal government and authoritarianism
The birth of bio-politics
Social Impact Bonds
Social Investment after Neoliberalism
Dissolving the Public Realm? The Logics and Limits of Neo-liberalism
Ambivalent economizations
| Unique citing works | 25 |
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| Citations per year | 6,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |