In Defence of Neoliberalism

In Defence of Neoliberalism

Many political scientists—from the conservative Patrick Deneen to the leftist Samuel Moyn—agree that the neoliberal turn, the shift toward more market-oriented economic policies during the 1980s and 1990s, was both sweeping and produced broadly negative results. But is this true?  According to the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom Index, the world’s economic freedom score has increased from 5.25 out of 10 in 1980 to 6.53 today. This is the res…

What are we facing today? If we do not know what it is called, how are we going to fight it? That is one of the questions that Amador Fernández Savater asks in this work in which he is based on a Cameroonian thinker, Achille Mbembe, to talk about brutalism. A violent world, turned into a gigantic open-pit mine, a company of perforation of bodies and territories, through language and symbolicism. The total war against matter, which in parallel im…