The Neoliberal Turn in Latin America

The Cycle of Ideas and the Search for an Alternative

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4975585
AutoresAna Margheritis (0000-0001-8126-4478, University of Florida), A W Pereira (0000-0003-2550-7177, Tulane University)
Ano2007
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas25-48
Data de publicação2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x07300587
OpenAlexW2152878926
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas46

The role of ideas has been neglected, in comparison with the role of interests and institutions, in the literature on neoliberal reform in Latin America. While ideas were not the primary cause of neoliberal reform, their development, articulation, and dissemination are a significant part of the story of the rise and fall of the "Washington Consensus." The neoliberalism of the 1980s and 1990s lost credibility and capacity to provide politically feasible policy guidelines because it was based on an elitist, exclusionary pact among small groups of experts and elites representing the interests of transnational capital. Only by understanding the origins and limitations of the ideas behind neoliberal reform can a new, more inclusive economic model for Latin America be created

Articulation (sociology) · Capital (architecture) · Credibility · Latin Americans · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Washington Consensus · Economic Theory and Policy · International Development and Aid · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies