Neoliberalism

Explain how the economic and political crises of the 1970s created opportunities for neoliberal ideas without making their rise inevitable.

Explain how the Mont Pèlerin Society, think tanks, and policy networks translated neoliberal ideas into political programs.

Analyze how authoritarian rule and market reform were connected in Chile under Augusto Pinochet.

Compare how the Thatcher and Reagan governments implemented neoliberal reform within different national institutions.

Explain how the 1980s debt crisis enabled the IMF and World Bank to impose structural adjustment programs.

Identify the central prescriptions of the Washington Consensus and the institutions that promoted them.

Evaluate whether China’s post-1978 market reforms fit the concept of neoliberalism.

Evaluate the claim that neoliberal reforms shifted economic power from organized labor toward owners of capital.

Analyze how structural adjustment transferred costs into unpaid care work using a feminist political-economy framework.

Explain why the 2008 global financial crisis did not produce a decisive worldwide break with neoliberalism.