WGS367H1 Study Guide - Free-Trade Zone, Racialization, Maquiladora
2 May 2014
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1. define neoliberalism: 3 examples connecting it with gender, health and neoliberalism. Jan 23 lecture globalization the drive towards an economic system dominated by supernational trade and banking institutions that are not accountable to democratic processes or national government. Characterized by an increase in cross-boarder economic, social and technological exchange under conditions of extreme capitalism (msimang, 2003/2013: the definition of neoliberalism: (guthman, 2009) Neoliberalism human well being best achieved within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade (guthman. Commodification making and creating markets (guthman, 2009) He and others argued that neoliberalism as a political project emerged as a fix for the crisis in global capitalism in 1970s where in the. Us there was falling rates of profit under fordist manufacture, high inflation, and the. Vietnam war causing debt causing a rise to accumulation crisis. This means a surplus of capital relative to profitable opportunities to invest.
