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This chapter establishes the two competing movements currently gripping Europe: one pressing for the strengthening of the Europeanised mechanisms of economic adjustment, the other resisting it. It argues that these two are internally related, so that the greater the resistance to economic adjustment the more coercive and insulated from this resistance the imposition of market discipline becomes.
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As I explain in the following chapter, I use the term neoliberal to encompass both German ordo-and Anglo-American neoliberal traditions. Put simply, rhetorical differences between the two traditions mask the fundamental reconfiguring of social relations in favour of capital that has characterised processes of neoliberalisation.
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Bandarage, A. (2013). Introduction: Environment, Society, and the Economy. In: Sustainability and Well-Being: The Middle Path to Environment, Society, and the Economy. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137308993_1
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