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What is Neo-Liberal Market

Contemporary Global Perspectives on Gender Economics
The economic philosophy posited as an extension of political liberal beliefs constructed around the central ideas of freedom from state constraint. In the Neo-Liberal market economic growth is paramount. This view of the economic world sets corporations and their agents free from state regulation to pursue whatever gives them an economic advantage. In consequence, internal and global markets are seen to be exempt from almost all government constraint. Secondly the idea is that free trade benefits all nations, whatever their wealth or poverty as every nation has its own ‘comparative advantage’. Thirdly Government spending is seen to create essential inefficiencies in the process and generates according to devotees of this philosophy inefficiency and waste. Finally in the distribution of economic goods, the notion of public goods and community is replaced by the concept of individual responsibility.
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New Kids on the Block: What Gender Economics and Palermo Tell Us about Trafficking in Human Beings
Carrie Pemberton Ford (University of the Free State, South Africa & Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking, UK)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8611-3.ch009
Abstract
Like Gender Economics, Trafficking in persons has only recently emerged into academic consciousness and business environment concerns, as a discrete area of study with its own particular areas of legal, socio-anthropological and economic principles, in the first decades of this third millennium. New discourses raise fresh questions and they are legion. The ‘new kids' seek to make sense of challenging phenomena and outline the terms through which, Trafficking in persons it is to be articulated to the wider academy, public services, market institutions, and civil society. This chapter explicates the connectedness of critiques Gender Economics has been using on businesses, to see how Human Traffickers exploit people's bodies and their gendered realities. There is certain passivity towards the human, inbuilt in neo-liberal markets which commodify the whole of life. Those least able to protect themselves from the abusive ‘entrepreneurship' of traffickers are traded, with their gendered reality affecting prices and outcomes.
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