Neoliberalism

Distinguish neoliberalism as an economic policy programme, a political project, and a governing rationality.

Explain how the crisis of Britain’s post-war settlement created an opening for Thatcherism.

Explain Brown’s claim that neoliberal reason recasts people as forms of human capital and extends market values beyond the economy.

Describe how Brown adapts Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to analyse neoliberalism.

Explain Brown’s argument that neoliberal rationality weakens democratic citizenship and popular sovereignty.

Analyse Brown’s explanation of the alliance between neoliberalism and traditionalist, nationalist politics.

Compare Thatcherism, New Labour, and post-2010 austerity as distinct phases of neoliberalism in Britain.