{"product_id":"the-political-theory-of-neoliberalism-9781503607828","title":"The Political Theory of Neoliberalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary for understanding the varieties of capitalism across space and time. Arguing that neoliberalism is widely misunderstood when reduced to a doctrine of markets and economics alone, this book shows that it has a political dimension that we can reconstruct and critique. Recognizing the heterogeneities within and between both neoliberal theory and practice, \u003ci\u003eThe Political Theory of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e looks to distinguish between the two as well as to theorize their relationship. By examining the views of state, democracy, science, and politics in the work of six major figures--Eucken, Röpke, Rüstow, Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan--it offers the first comprehensive account of the varieties of neoliberal political thought. Ordoliberal perspectives, in particular, emerge in a new light. Turning from abstract to concrete, the book also interprets recent neoliberal reforms of the European Union to offer a diagnosis of contemporary capitalism more generally. The latest economic crises hardly brought the neoliberal era to an end. Instead, as Thomas Biebricher shows, we are witnessing an authoritarian liberalism whose reign has only just begun. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Biebricher\u003c\/b\u003e is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50416495657234,"sku":"9781503607828","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a08e0b1-704d-4348-9700-728e73832714.jpg?v=1729422935","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-political-theory-of-neoliberalism-9781503607828","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}