Books by Melinda Cooper
“Melinda Cooper focuses on the micro level. For her the most important institution at the micro level is not the individual but the family. She shows how neoliberals identified the family as a critically important institution, necessary in a neoliberal world to provide the kind of regulation that government would no longer supply itself.” Read more...
The best books on Neoliberalism
Gary Gerstle, Historian
Interviews where books by Melinda Cooper were recommended
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey -
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
by Quinn Slobodian -
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
by Michel Foucault -
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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
by Wendy Brown -
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Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
by Melinda Cooper
The best books on Neoliberalism, recommended by Gary Gerstle
The best books on Neoliberalism, recommended by Gary Gerstle
Neoliberalism is, arguably, the dominant political and economic ideology of the Western world, although its dominance is contested and the ills of the world are often laid at its door. Here Cambridge historian Gary Gerstle discusses five books that will help you understand neoliberalism’s origins, its ambitions and why it has been supported and opposed with such partisanship.
