Tracking Neo-Liberalism: Labour Market Policies in the OECD Area

Under conditions of globalization neo-liberal policies are often advanced as the only ones that nation-states can pursue effectively. By embracing the deregulatory logic of the global market, it is argued, nation-states will be better positioned to achieve success than if they cling to outdated notions of state intervention. Thus states should be catalysts in promoting market adaptation. If they act in this way, their citizens will reap the …