Description
The Neoliberal Hijacking of Welfare
Book Summary
This essay reveals how neoliberal discourse has managed to impose a model of the State that makes it impossible to reconcile social welfare with justice. The work analyzes the historical process that has led to this situation, exploring the indirect mechanisms that have caused societies to submit to the markets. Essential reading for those who seek to understand the hidden dynamics of power and need tools to design an alternative social project in a context of economic and political crisis.
What is it about?
The author, Amaia Inza Bartolomé, approaches the current crisis as an opportunity to rethink the relationship between politics and the neoliberal capitalist accumulation model. The book dismantles the apparent inevitability of this system, showing how it has managed to establish itself as a consensual norm, similar in its apparent unanimity to the post-war Keynesian consensus. Through rigorous analysis, it exposes the indirect methods by which neoliberalism has achieved societies submissive to the markets, preventing the configuration of differentiated political options and concealing the true dynamics of our societies.
Main Topics
- Critique of the hegemonic neoliberal discourse and its imposition as the sole way of thinking.
- Analysis of the relationship between politics, the State, and the capitalist accumulation model.
- Study of the mechanisms of indirect power that generate social submission to the markets.
- Reflection on the impossibility of combining social welfare with justice within the neoliberal framework.
- Proposal to rethink the foundations for an alternative social project following the economic crisis.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at readers interested in sociology, politics, critical economics, and state theory. It will be especially useful for students and professionals in the social sciences, law, economics, and criminology, as well as for anyone concerned with understanding the foundations of neoliberal thought and its consequences on welfare and social justice. It is also recommended reading for activists, opinion leaders, and policymakers who are looking for alternatives to the dominant model.
What this book contributes
- A critical and documented vision of the process of implementing neoliberalism in contemporary societies.
- Conceptual tools to identify the power mechanisms that hinder the construction of political alternatives.
- An in-depth analysis of why it is so complex to design a social project that combines welfare and social justice today.
- Keys to understanding the economic crisis as a symptom of a broader structural conflict.
Technical Specifications
- Author: Inza Bartolomé, Amaia
- Publisher: ERASMUS EDICIONES
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Society and culture, Sociology and anthropology, Social services and welfare, Politics and government, Economics, Law
- Collection: PENSAMIENTO DEL PRESENTE
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition date: November 2011
- Number of pages: 212
- Weight: 317 g
Editorial Review
A necessary work to dismantle the apparent naturalness of the dominant neoliberal discourse. The author offers a rigorous and accessible analysis that invites critical reflection on the model of State and society that we have accepted as inevitable. Its interdisciplinary approach, ranging from political theory to welfare economics, makes it a valuable tool for those who wish to understand the roots of the current crisis and explore alternative paths. A work of full validity that remains relevant to contemporary public debate.