Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures.

Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. …