How Neoliberalism Created the Populist Backlash
By empowering the market to erode social institutions, neoliberalism set up a backlash against citizens being downgraded to mere consumers.
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Niklas Olsen is associate professor in history and chair of the Centre of Modern European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of The Sovereign Consumer: A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism.
By empowering the market to erode social institutions, neoliberalism set up a backlash against citizens being downgraded to mere consumers.
Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer — pushing people out of political life and into the marketplace.