{"id":6750,"date":"2016-09-07T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2016-09-07T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T07:32:08","slug":"parochial-thinking-about-the-neoliberal-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/09\/07\/parochial-thinking-about-the-neoliberal-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Parochial thinking about the neoliberal project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you catch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/aug\/21\/death-of-neoliberalism-crisis-in-western-politics\">obituary<\/a> about neoliberalism in the Guardian from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinjacques.com\">Martin Jacques<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Rather wishful thinking, I felt, and astonishingly neglectful of the world beyond the USA-EU-UK axis. \u00a0What about the world\u2019s poor and the SDGs, I wondered \u2026 . \u00a0Still, it's a summary that actually expresses a view on\u00a0what the\u00a0neoliberal project is (was?), which is more than most people who write about usually bother to do.<\/p>\n<p>But how to explain such an oversight? \u00a0By way of background (and perhaps of explication), here's a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2004\/12\/jac1-d15.html\">comment<\/a> on Jacques's work over time from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\">wsws.org<\/a> \u2013 a website which I feel I should\u00a0point out has nothing to do with\u00a0me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you catch this obituary about neoliberalism in the Guardian from Martin Jacques? Rather wishful thinking, I felt, and astonishingly neglectful of the world beyond the USA-EU-UK axis. \u00a0What about the world\u2019s poor and the SDGs, I wondered \u2026 ....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}