The Sovereign Consumer A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism /

• Main Author: Olsen, Niklas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Consumption and Public Life
• Subjects: Economic sociology.; Political sociology.; Social policy.; Political economy.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Political Sociology.; Social Policy.; International Political Economy.

Olsen takes the contemporary analysis of neoliberalism in an exciting and productive new direction by providing a genealogy of the script and a study of this neoliberal persona. It is a thrilling achievement. -Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History, Yale University, USA This work provides us wit...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Birth of the Neoliberal Sovereign Consumer
• 3. Liberating the Consumer: Ludwig Erhard and the Making of the Federal Republic
• 4. From Choice to Welfare: The Concept of the Consumer in the Chicago School of Economics
• 5. The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer in Post-war Economics. - 6. Sovereign Consumers Enter the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Case of Denmark. - 7. Neoliberalism without Neoliberals
• 8. Epilogue.