Vijita Patel has led Swiss Cottage School, an LA school in Camden, through multiple ‘outstandings’ and had visits the World Bank. She discusses empowering staff
Insane Medicine, Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and the Compare-and-Compete Society
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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Sami Timimi’s book, Insane Medicine
. This week, he explores the concept of neoliberalism and its impact creating distress, marketing it, and selling its treatment. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived here.
What is neoliberalism? Neoliberalism refers to a way of organising our political and economic systems using a particular model of capitalism that promotes free market economics based around competition as the best way to organise and develop pretty much every aspect of society. It’s generally associated with policies of economic liberalisation that promote privatisation, deregulation, globalisation, free trade, austerity, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector across all sections of th