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Foucault grasped early on that, under the influence of Becker, neoliberal thought offered a whole new vision of economic agency, contained in the idea of ‘human capital’: individuals could make investments in themselves by such means as higher education, in the hope of reaping future financial returns. This is the logic that would later be used to justify the marketisation of universities in the UK, on the basis that, from the student’s perspective, tuition fees constitute a financial investment. __Under neoliberalism, all life (including matters of career, family and identity) becomes a series of personal business strategies and bets.__
William Davies: Stay away from politics
London Review of Books
Bottom‐up models also rejected the view that policy design was the exclusive prerogative of the legislative process. Lipsky argued that street‐level actions effectively determined important features of the policy.
Policy Analysis as Orgnaisational Analysis
Barry L. Friedman
Manifest values are the values that an agent takes themselves to adhere to — e.g., someone who values gender equality in the sense that they take themselves to be driven to achieve it both in the future and in their relations with other people in the present. Operative values, however, are the values that an agent is actually driven by.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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