aegis
(en)
(noun, Greek mythology) protective mantle of Zeus given to Athena
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that can take place only under the aegis of neoliberalism
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that can take place only under the aegis of neoliberalism
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beneficence
(en)
the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity
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the governing central bank combines its beneficence with strict political conditions
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the governing central bank combines its beneficence with strict political conditions
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a paradox described by Hungarian economist Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformation, refering to the actions of states in ensuring the existence of free markets
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in the mode of what Polanyi called 'planned laissez-faire'
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in the mode of what Polanyi called 'planned laissez-faire'
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ecclesia militans
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means Church Militant; a branch of the Christian Church which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and "the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places"
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As peoples, represented by their states, resist the subordination of their lives to the laws of the international market, the ecclesia militans of neoliberal reform sees this as a governability problem that can and must be overcome by more of the same
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As peoples, represented by their states, resist the subordination of their lives to the laws of the international market, the ecclesia militans of neoliberal reform sees this as a governability problem that can and must be overcome by more of the same
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façade democracy
(en)
something that appears to be a democracy but isn't much of one in reality
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The term ‘façade democracy’ fits nothing better than a political system whose legal and actual constitution obliges it to stay out of self-propelling ‘markets’
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The term ‘façade democracy’ fits nothing better than a political system whose legal and actual constitution obliges it to stay out of self-propelling ‘markets’
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Jacobin
(en)
The Society of the Friends of the Constitution, after 1792 renamed Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality, commonly known as the Jacobin Club (Club des Jacobins) or simply the Jacobins; the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution
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a unitary-Jacobin constitution for a democratic European state is unimaginable
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a unitary-Jacobin constitution for a democratic European state is unimaginable
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