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Since the mid-1970s an aggressive new strain of capitalism has come to dominate the world and it is called “neoliberalism.” The word “liberalism” is used because neoliberalism looks back to the classical economists, such as Adam Smith, for its inspiration but it is an aggressive new variant of liberalism lacking the empathy for other humans that the classical economists articulated; consequently, the prefix “neo” is added to the word “liberalism.” A widely used definition of neoliberalism is that used by Harvey (2006, p. 2) who defined it as:
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Holden, W., Nadeau, K., Porio, E. (2017). Neoliberalism Exasperates the Problem of Climate Change. In: Ecological Liberation Theology. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50782-8_5
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