Politics & Governance / Political Philosophy & Theory / Liberalism & Ideology

The Hidden Ideology Controlling Your Life: Neoliberalism Explained

Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction

Manfred B. Steger, Ravi K. Roy

You think you are free. You are actually just a consumer in a rigged system. Welcome to the invisible matrix that dictates your wages, your rent, and your future. This is the core revelation of Neoliberalism A Very Short Introduction. Authored by Manfred B Steger and Ravi K Roy, this powerhouse of a book strips away the lies of modern economics. Steger is a professor of global studies, and Roy is a political scientist. Together, they expose how a fringe idea hijacked the global economy. Slide 1: The Grand Illusion You were told governments exist to serve citizens. Wrong. Governments now exist to serve corporations. Citizens have been downgraded to mere customers. Everything is a transaction. Slide 2: The Freedom Trap It started as a fight against tyranny. Thinkers claimed government intervention leads to slavery. They sold us a dream of pure unregulated markets. Instead we got a nightmare of corporate monopolies. Slide 3: The Secret Formula It relies on three brutal steps. Deregulate everything. Liberalize trade. Privatize public wealth. They cut taxes for the rich and smashed the working class. The wealth trickled up, never down. Slide 4: The 1980s Hijack Enter Reagan and Thatcher. They transformed wild theories into ruthless laws. They sold off public housing, railways, and airlines to the highest bidder. They engineered massive Wall Street booms. And left the public with devastating crashes and endless debt. Wake up to the reality of the system. Learn how the rules were rewritten. Stop playing a game designed for you to lose.