neoliberalism

Used here as a customer-is-always-right logic applied to university education.

Jiang defines it as the belief that economic growth is the central solution to social problems.

Used as the free-market ideology associated with Reagan and Thatcher that helped transition society away from the worker.

Jiang uses neoliberalism as the main modern religion, carried by elite institutions and defined by individualism, measurability, and expansionary universalism.

The system's three major values are open society, privatization or neoliberalism, and consumerism.

He names neoliberalism, technofuturism, world government, population replacement, and bureaucratic incompetence as partial theories, but argues the better method is to ask who benefits from the trends.

Jiang says the 1980s brought a revolt of elites, visible in the Reagan Revolution, Thatcherism, neoliberalism, and free-market capitalism, which moved society away from the worker and back toward money.

Jiang says Clinton was a centrist neoliberal doing Republican work by advancing NAFTA, permanent normal trade relations with China, and China's WTO entry.

Jiang says Bill Clinton functioned as a Bush-mentored vehicle for pushing neoliberal free-trade policies and remaking the Democratic Party from within.

Jiang says the post-1970s neoliberal turn ended a social order in which a single factory wage could support a family and replaced it with concentrated wealth and speculative finance.

Jiang says the Reagan-Thatcher-neoliberal shift is the root of the current Western political and social crisis.

Jiang says neoliberal consumer values have made people miserable, lonely, alienated, and depressed, and therefore must be abandoned if humanity is to survive.