CMNS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Shock Doctrine, Post-Fordism, Neoliberalism
29 Feb 2016
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Recap: post-fordism characterized by exible labour, immaterial commodities, niche marketing and consumption and networked, exible production. Nl as a mode of regulation of post-fordism. It has become a kind of common sense understanding of the relationship between politics and the economy. Neoliberalism is the result of a debate about the role of government in running an economy - and about what role market priorities, institutions and values should have in society at large. For keynes, the state or government should have a strong role in planning the economy, but for. Historical context for the debate was after the great depression of the early 1930s, and the economic devastation in europe at the end of the second world war in 1945. Klein argues that in order to implement this model, governments needed to exploit crisis, enact wars or coups and act on the public"s disorientation.
