This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on
contemporary life and behavior. Synthesizing perspectives from politics and economics with
insights from psychology and linguistics it argues that market-driven public institutions
promote antisocial thinking discourage critical reflection and inure individuals to inequity
and cruelty. Chapters cite the ubiquity of violence in modern society from the marketing of
the military to impersonal mass upheavals in the job market as devaluing human worth and thus
self-worth. But the editors also assert that these currents are not terminal and the book
concludes by identifying conditions potentially leading to a more civil and egalitarian future.
Included in the coverage: The language of current economics: social theory the market and the
disappearance of relationships. Neoliberalism and education: the disfiguration of students.
Slicing up societies: commercial media and the destruction of social environments.
Neoliberalism and the transformation of work. Economics the network society and the ontology
of violence. A new economic order without violence. Given the centrality of economic events on
the global stage Neoliberalism Economic Radicalism and the Normalization of Violence stands
out as both a springboard for discussion and a call to action to be read by political and
cultural economists political scientists and sociologists.
