We’re continuing our series on AFEE presentations at the 2021 ASSA meeting with Eugenia Correa, who presented her paper “New Limits of the Neoliberalism: Society and Market,” coauthored with Laura Vidal.
Abstract: Neoliberalism has been able to change the markets and the economy of societies around the world. These transformations are especially important with regards to fictitious commodities: land, labor, and money. In turn, the 2020 pandemic imposes new limits, when life itself is at risk globally. This work highlights the major neoliberal reforms relating to fictitious merchandise, the difficulties of society to resist and create counterweights. The health crisis that has emerged with the COVID SARS 2 pandemic is the result of decades of over-exploitation of nature and human beings. The reforms over fictitious goods, especially labor, have led to a constant and systematic decline of society. This paper is supported by the theoretical legacy of Polanyi and Polanyi Levitt that allows us to consider the most important trends of neoliberal reforms and their main objectives.
You can read the paper here and view the PowerPoint below.
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