1st Edition

The Ethics of Neoliberalism The Business of Making Capitalism Moral

By Peter Bloom Copyright 2017
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

The 21 st century is the age of "neo-liberalism" – a time when the free market is spreading to all areas of economic, political and social life. Yet how is this changing our individual and collective ethics? Is capitalism also becoming our new morality? From the growing popular demand for corporate social responsibility to personal desire for "work-life balance" it would appear that non-market... Read more
1. The Paradox of Neoliberal Ethics 

2. Producing the Ethical Capitalist Subject

3.The Ethical Power of Neoliberalism

4.The Political Power of Neoliberal Ethics

5.The Institutional Power of Neoliberal Ethics

6.The Personal Power of Neoliberal Ethics

7. The Subjective Power of Neoliberal Ethics

8.Fighting the Power of Neoliberal Ethics

9.The Ethics of Neoliberalism: The Business of Making Capitalism Moral

Biography

Peter Bloom is a Lecturer in the Department of People and Organisations at the Open University, UK.

"Neoliberalism has frequently been viewed as a nihilistic embrace of the free market or a governmental effort to reduce everything to economic calculation. Peter Bloom demonstrates that this representation misses vital dimensions of neoliberal power and ideology, namely the ways in which social and ethical life are co-opted in the service of economic institutions. Neoliberalism is not just an avenue to profit-maximisation, but promises "to allow subjects to use the market to be good and do good". The Ethics of Neoliberalism is an important new contribution to the field, which greatly enriches our understanding of how markets, ideology and morality become entangled, trapping us in the process."-- Dr. Will Davies. Reader in Political Economy, Goldsmith University of London, UK