Neoliberal deadlock

Authors

  • Pedro Demo

Keywords:

Neoliberalism, Citizenship, Market

Abstract

 

Neoliberalism means the recovery of the liberal context dominated by market regulation with respect to the development of the economy and society. The analysis recognizes that neoliberalism is an impasse, because it is impracticable to regulate the market by citizenship. What happens is the regulation of citizenship by the market, relentlessly. Thus, social policies tend to be compensatory, never touching the dynamics of the concentration of income and power. They become only distributive, that is, they distribute budget remains to a population considered to be rest, no matter how large they may be. at the same time, it is impossible to insert the entire economically active population into the labor market, because it is part of the globalized competitive dynamics of this economic system to grow by reducing jobs. This dynamics is related to relative added value, driven by science and technology. If the economy were forced to take on the 10 million unemployed, it would cease to be competitive. The informal sector already encompasses the majority of workers (in fact, it already approaches 2/3) and it is not clear how this could ever change. The neoliberal stalemate is precisely that perverse regulation that the market has on citizenship.

Published

2020-01-24

How to Cite

DEMO, P. Neoliberal deadlock. O Público e o Privado, Fortaleza, v. 3, n. 6 jul.dez, p. 73–107, 2020. Disponível em: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/opublicoeoprivado/article/view/2509. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.