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Tag: neoliberalism

  • Sociological Perspectives on the December Strikes…

    1.3 million workers are making just demands for better pay and conditions, but the neoliberal government is against them

  • Education Policy in England and Wales: 1979 to 2022

    Education policy to 2022 has been influenced by neoliberalism: we now have a well established market in education with monitoring done centrally by government authorities while little has been done to address equality of educational opportunity.

  • The Neoliberal Perspective on Education

    Neoliberalism holds that education systems should be run according to free market principles. Neoliberals believe that education should be privatised both endogenously and exogenously, parents and students given more choice and voice and they also advocate for more top down surveillance and performance management.

  • We need more than individualised solutions to the energy crisis!

    Martin Lewis has been arguing since at least March 2022 that energy prices in the UK have increased so rapidly in such a short space of time that millions of people will be unable to manage the increasing costs simply by instigating energy-saving measures at the level of the individual household. His concern is justified,…

  • The Recent Budget – An end to Neoliberalism?

    The recent UK Budget saw a nominally right wing Conservative government pledge more money for public services and introduce pay and universal credit increases for the lowest paid. Following a huge increase in borrowing during the Pandemic and a recent increase in National Insurance contributions (basically a tax increase) this hardly seems like a government…

  • Has neoliberalism been oversold?

    The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have been the two global institutions most associated with pushing neoliberal policies onto developing countries since the 1980s, but a recent (2016) article posted to the IMF’s Financial Development newsletter points out that neoliberal policies have caused problems in several countries, suggesting that neoliberalism hasn’t been universally successful.…

  • Beyond Neoliberalism

    In this TED talk, Dr Johannes Meier argues that Neoliberalism has become and orthodoxy, but now it has reached its expiration date… This material should be of interest as a balanced critique of neoliberalism, which should be especially relevant to students studying the Global Development option for A-level sociology. The current economic orthodoxy is one…

  • Neoliberalism: A Short Introduction

    Neoliberalism has been one of the most influential political ideas of the last century, and it has been especially influential in shaping global policies of international development since the 1980s. Below is a useful four minute video on 10 things you should know about Neoliberalism, as summarised by Ravi K. Roy, co-author of Neoliberalism: A…

  • Explaining the Rapid Social Development in Ghana

    Ghana, in West Africa, has seen positive economic growth for several decades now, on a par with many of its peers (similar countries by virtue of their development stats): However, it has been more successful that other countries in translating that economic growth into social development, as measured by the decline in stunting and the…

  • The US-UK Trade Deal: More Neoliberalism?

    Brexit hasn’t been in the news much since Covid-19, but we’re still leaving the European Union in January 2020, which means we haven’t got long to get some trade-deals in place with several different countries. The United States is one of the UK’s largest trade partners, with around $250 of trade between the countries every…