The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from by Dotan Leshem

By Dotan Leshem

Dotan Leshem recasts the heritage of the West from an monetary point of view, bringing politics, philosophy, and economics nearer jointly and revealing the numerous position of Christian theology in shaping monetary and political idea. He starts off with early Christianity engagement with monetary wisdom and the impression of this interplay on politics and philosophy. He then follows the seculariza­tion of economics in liberal and neoliberal idea, exhibiting it to be a perversion of previous communitarian culture. basically by way of significantly moving the origins of modernity in overdue antiquity, Leshem argues, will we confront neoliberalism.

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