Neoliberal Reason and the Displacement of Politics [William Davies, The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (revised edition) London: SAGE, 2017, 248 pp]

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dc.contributor.authorPhelan S
dc.coverage.spatialNew Zealand
dc.date.issued2019-06-11
dc.description.abstractThe last decade has seen the publication of many excellent books about neoliberalism that have challenged some of the glib stereotypes that attach themselves to the term. One of the most acclaimed has been William Davies’s 2014 book The Limits of Neoliberalism, and justifiably so. The book has already been published in revised edition in 2017, with a new preface reassessing the argument in light of the Euro-American political dislocations of 2016. A co-director of the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London, Davies has been a prolific author since the publication of the 2014 edition, publishing two more books that have given him a readership well beyond the academy, and becoming a regular contributor to publications like The Guardian, London Review of Books, and The New York Times. The praise for The Limits of Neoliberalism has been near universal. The writer and journalist Paul Mason cited it in 2018 as one of the five books that best explain the condition of the Left today. According to Mason, it sums up the way in which the ‘modern left’ has come to think about neoliberalism, particularly the reinvigorated Left programme of the UK Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn.
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dc.identifier.citationCounterfutures: Left Thought & Practice Aotearoa., 2019, (7), pp. 116 - 129 (14)
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dc.subjectNeoliberalism
dc.subjectNew Zealand politics
dc.titleNeoliberal Reason and the Displacement of Politics [William Davies, The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (revised edition) London: SAGE, 2017, 248 pp]
dc.typeBook Review
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
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