Will Davies spoke to Jessica Whyte, University of New South Wales, about her book, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism. They discussed the vision of ‘civilisation’ that inspired the early neoliberals, their debt to the Scottish Enlightenment, the mutation of rights discourses between the 1940s and the 1970s, and the fate of neoliberalism and rights today.
Read on:
- The Morals of the Market – Jessica Whyte
- Review of The Morals of the Market – Jeanne Morefield, Jacobin
- Undoing the Demos – Wendy Brown
- A bibliographic review of neoliberalism – Will Davies
- ‘Postneoliberalism’ – forthcoming Theory Culture & Society special issue, edited by Will Davies & Nick Gane
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