国家による福祉・公共サービスの縮小と大幅な規制緩和、市場原理主義を重視する新自由主義は、1990年代後半には世界で最も支配的な経済規範でした。その歩み、特徴、各国で行われた改革に注目します。2008年の世界的金融危機、近年のナショナリズムの台頭で岐路に立たされている新自由主義は変化を余儀なくされています。新版にはポピュリズムの再燃が新自由主義に与える影響を考察する新章を追加。2010年以降の動向と今後の展望を探ります。
   

• Explores the origins, evolution, and core ideas of neoliberalism
• Discusses the impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the related European Sovereign Debt Crisis on neoliberal ideals and systems
• Considers the global variations of neoliberalism

New to this Edition:

• Includes a new final chapter focused on the impact of resurgent national populism on neoliberalism
• Explores the post 2010 'third wave' of neoliberalism

   
Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into communist China's powerful economic system. However, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the related European Sovereign Debt Crisis triggered a decade of economic volatility and insecurity that boosted the fortunes of the 1 per cent while saddling the 99 per cent with stagnant wages and precarious work. As a result of this Great Recession, neoliberalism fortunes have waned considerably. This downward trend further accelerated with the recent surge of national populism around the world that brought to power outspoken critics of neoliberalism like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro, and Narendra Modi. Is neoliberalism doomed or will it regain its former glory? And what are the major types of neoliberalism, and how did they evolve over the decades?
   
Responding to these crucial questions, this Very Short introduction explores the considerable variations of neoliberalism around the world, and discusses the origins, evolution, and core ideas of neoliberalism. This new edition brings the story of neoliberalism up to date, and asks whether new versions of neoliberalism might succeed in drowning out the rising tide of national populism and its nostalgic longing for a return to territorial sovereignty and national greatness.