Neo-liberalism as creative destruction

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ID5816207
AuthorsDavid Harvey (0000-0003-3703-7336, The City University of New York, USA)
Year2006
Volume88
Issue2
Pages145-158
Publication date2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0435-3684 • E-ISSN: 1468-0467
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0435-3684.2006.00211.x
OpenAlexW1999911391
LanguageEN
Citations received317
References cited5

Neoliberalization has swept across the world like a vast tidal wave of institutional reform and discursive adjustment, entailing much destruction, not only of prior institutional frameworks and powers, but also of divisions of labor, social relations, welfare provisions, technological mixes, ways of life, attachments to the land, habits of the heart, ways of thought, and the like. To turn the neoliberal rhetoric against itself, we may reasonably ask: in whose particular interests is it that the state take a neoliberal stance and in what ways have these particular interests used neoliberalism to benefit themselves rather than, as is claimed, everyone, everywhere?Neoliberalism has spawned a swath of oppositional movements. The more clearly oppositional movements recognize that their central objective must be to confront the class power that has been so effectively restored under neoliberalization, the more they will likely themselves cohere.Key words: neoliberalismcreative destructionclass poweraccumulation by dispossessionprivatizationfinancializationredistributiondemocratic alternatives

Neoliberalism (international relations · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Russia and Soviet political economy

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