Thursday, July 31, 2003

"Neoliberalism's unreserved endorsement of market-orientated global capitalism shows how far it draws from a narrow economic liberalism that is uninterested in other matters. Neoliberals are not concerned by the implications for democracy of the growing power of transnational corporations, the difficulty of reconciling unbridled consumerism and competitive individualism with any meaningful notion of human flourishing, or the threat posed to economic and cultural diversity by the emergence of global goods, the trend towards merger and monopoly, and the impact on the environment. Neoliberalism amounts to a form of market fundamentalism." (Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies - 2003 - an interesting read to gain valuable insight in various political possibilities shaping our world)

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