Yes, closed systems always end up like Procrustes Couch. First it was minorities that didn't fit in the 1880s, then the sensory education of the Arts after 1929 and now it's public health. Chop off those arms and legs. REH
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Malcolm Blackmore Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Most succinct definition of neoliberalism I've yet seen? From from Al Jazeera via David Harvey >From Al Jazeera quoting David Harvey probably the best one paragraph definition of neo liberalism I've seen so far (note to self time to try and order in from public library some recent Harvey works. If they will get them - the last 10 orders have been banned. I think there is political censorship being exercised in the library dept.!! I miss my access to the university library which I lost when I had to retire due to a neurodegenerative health condition). "What is neoliberalism? In his Brief History of Neoliberalism, the eminent social geographer David Harvey outlined "a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterised by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade." Neoliberal states guarantee, by force if necessary, the "proper functioning" of markets; where markets do not exist (for example, in the use of land, water, education, health care, social security, or environmental pollution), then the state should create them." http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201122414315249621.html A [Arab] revolution against neoliberalism? _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
