Agency and neoliberalism

Wrenn, Mary V.

Abstract

© The Author 2014. The intensification of neoliberalism requires institutions and mental models that are not only complementary, but also interactively reinforcing. Since an individual's agency is the product of her mental models, it stands to reason that agency within neoliberalism must bear certain ethnographic markers necessary to sustain the system. The argument set forth is that agency within the specific context of neoliberalism requires tailored cultural mechanisms and artefacts to construct and support a self-referential yet non-authentic agency.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 6, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Nov 25, 2014
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 21, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 21, 2019
• Journal: Cambridge Journal of Economics
• Print ISSN: 0309-166X
• Electronic ISSN: 1464-3545
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1231-1243
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu047
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/828807
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu047
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Cambridge Journal of Economics following peer review. The version of record [Wrenn, M. (2015) Agency and neoliberalism. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 39 (5). pp. 1231-1243. ISSN 0309-166X] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu047
• Contract Date: Mar 21, 2019