LS 403- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 18 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Classic neoliberalism (freedom of choice, action, thought, expression) about you as an individual and free actor. Assumption: we are all self interested and need the state to intervene so we can each maximize our own potential to the fullest extent. Things that are neoliberal are privatization, fiscal posterity, deregulation, reduction in govt spending, & an enhancement of the private sector of the economy at the expense of social goods and social welfare policies. Maximize our own opportunity as much as possible consequence of this is poorer people not everyone will rise to the top. Hollowing out what the state is responsible for shift in what were. Homo economicus you are encouraged to act like a business yourself. State should be minimally involved where we thought it should be maximally socialized in what we think the state should do for us involved in. As a neoliberal subject you are only worth what you can produce for yourself.
