{"product_id":"9783030078089","title":"Consumption and Public Life: A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism","description":"\u003ch1\u003eConsumption and Public Life: A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eOlsen, Niklas\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in the interwar period, this figure has been crucial to the construction and legimitization of neoliberal ideology and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnalysis of the sovereign consumer across time and space demonstrates how neoliberals have linked the figure both to the idea of democracy as a method of choice, and also to a re-invention of the market as the democratic forum \u003ci\u003epar excellence. \u003c\/i\u003eMoreover, Olsen contemplates how the sovereign consumer has served to marketize politics and functioned as a major driver in a wide-ranging transformation in political thinking, subjecting traditional political values to the narrow pursuit of economic growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA politically timely project, \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign Consumer\u003c\/i\u003e will have a wide appeal in academic circles, especially for those interested in consumer and welfarestudies, and in political, economic and cultural thought in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2019-02-01\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030078089\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-89584-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 308\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44775489503372,"sku":"9783030078089","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030078089.jpg?v=1776692670","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030078089","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}