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  1. Liberalization (drop tariffs, subsidies, capital controls, export restrictins, etc.)
  2. Privatization (sell state holdings, which in many cases are substantial)
  3. Stabilization (allow currency to float at its "natural" [usually lower] exchange rate)

As this outline of the neoliberal policy package shows, neoliberalism is [...] a description of at least two powerful and intertwined contemporary economic dynamics: globalization and financialization. Neoliberalism can be understood as the historical conjuncture, and political legitimization (via both coercion and consent) of these two processes. Globalization is the integration of the international economy via trade. The original version of liberalism certainly involved globalization, but without the kind of financialization we have today with _neo_liberalism--or at least, back then, finance played a different and subordinate role as investor in productive enterprise.

[...] this definition of neoliberalism is helpful since it allows us to [...] understand the differences between what is sometimes called the "first era of globalization"--British free trade imperialism in the nineteenth century--and what we call globalization today (by which we mean something more specifically neoliberal).

the conditions are those that must be met for receiving an IMF loan

he describes the IMF as one of the most important frontline institutions for neoliberalism

—p.143 The Long Boom and the Longer Downturn (113) by Geoff Mann 6 years, 9 months ago