Niklas Olsen (Copenhagen): The Sovereign Consumer Goes Global: On the Making of the Neoliberal Political Paradigm
Abstract
The neoliberal figure of the sovereign consumer, understood as an agent able to dictate production and drive politics, is central to contemporary thinking about political economy. Investigating how this figure has been constructed, disseminated and used for political purposes in Europe and the Western World, this talk focuses on the prehistory of the neoliberal sovereign consumer from around 1700 to its birth and ‘global‘ breakthrough in the interwar period.
Time and Place
Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2017, 18–20 Uhr
Hauptgebäude, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Raum E 21
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- GIH LMU niklas olsen lecture (673 KByte)