Neoliberal Lives - by Robert Chernomas & Ian Hudson & Mark Hudson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>America has transformed over the past 35 years as capitalist logic has expanded into previously protected spheres of life. This expansion has had devastating effects on the potential for human development.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book is about the transformation of America that has occurred over the past thirty-five years, as capitalist logic has expanded into previously protected spheres of life. This expansion has had devastating effects on the potential for human development. Looking at how human beings create themselves and their worlds on material foundations of health and the natural environment, through work and politics, the book chronicles how neoliberalism has limited human potential. At a time when neoliberalism's effects are stirring various forms of popular resistance and opposition, this is a manifesto of sorts for the range of processes that need to be confronted if human potential is to be freed from the increasingly cramped quarters to which neoliberalism has confined it.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Life in America has been transformed over the past thirty-five years. Using a historical materialist framework, the authors argue that what appear today as fragmented social, economic, environmental, and political problems are all manifestations of neoliberalism - a class-based political project to more favourably position capital in its struggle to preserve the conditions for accumulation. This project reaches deeply into the weave of biological, ecological, and social life. It involves both the increasing role of money and markets in the determination of life chances, and the systematic push of corporations into previously protected spheres of life. Emphasizing Martha Nussbaum's (2011: 32) question "What does a life worthy of human dignity require?" each chapter of this book (covering labour, education, democracy, health, and nature) will analyse a cornerstone of human development that had previously been, to varying degrees, protected from the logic of the capitalist market. This book examines how US business successfully increased control over, privatized or commodified each of these areas, amounting to a neoliberal transformation of lived experience. Neoliberalism has far-reaching and troubling consequences for the potential of people in the US to live a full and flourishing life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>"A worthwhile and timely book which seeks to offer an analysis of the limits and the limitations of neoliberalism both in terms of those areas of social life that have not been (fully) neoliberalised, and in terms of how neoliberalism can be limited by government policy, social practices, and social action. It contributes greatly to our understanding of neoliberalism, offers new insights, and includes a wealth of contributions across important fields." - Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute <br><p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson are Professors in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba Mark Hudson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba
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