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Neoliberalism has become a common, if contested, frame of reference for International Political Economy (IPE) to understand the governance of the global economy. In examining such complex terrain, this chapter begins by offering four prominent starting points for the analysis of neoliberalism: (1) as a history of intellectual ideas; (2) as a system of enhanced capitalist power; (3) as a cultural examination of everyday conduct; and (4) as a more generic, post-Marxist expression to denote the current zeitgeist. The discussion proceeds to dissect neoliberalism via three major ‘acts’: (1) from the late 1970s to the early 1990s; (2) from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s; and (3) from the late 2000s to the present. Significant contributions from IPE are discussed in relation to the wider empirical context.

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  1. International Political Economy, SOAS University of London, London, UK

    Matthew Eagleton-Pierce

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Timothy M. Shaw

  2. Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Laura C. Mahrenbach

  3. Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

    Renu Modi

  4. School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia

    Xu Yi-chong

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Eagleton-Pierce, M. (2019). Neoliberalism. In: Shaw, T.M., Mahrenbach, L.C., Modi, R., Yi-chong, X. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy. Palgrave Handbooks in IPE. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45443-0_8

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