Ideology, Neoliberalism, and Free Market Competition
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- Thomas Klikauer
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- 2025
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- en
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This chapter shows that the ideology of managerialism is needed more than ever to stabilise companies and capitalism as a whole. As capitalism moves towards monopoly capitalism, the ideology of free market competition becomes more important because it ideologically legitimises large corporations. Many of them have long become monopolies or oligopolies. In this, the twin brothers of managerialism and neoliberalism operate with the following simplistic but highly efficient formula: free market = competition = best value for money = optimum efficiency for the individual. In the ideological legitimacy provided by the ideology of managerialism, individuals are often framed in a social-Darwinist way engaged in a competitive fight for all against all . Based on all this, the chapter highlights four basic ideologies that legitimise competition in a system that is less and less competitive: everything is for sale; there is a free entry to the marketplace for companies; market transactions are the raison d’être of the system; competition demands perfect knowledge; and the absence of an interventionist state. The chapter ends by outlining the fallacies of the so-called Pareto efficiency that, ever since its invention, remains a vital legitimising ideology.
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- 10.4324/9781003502678-5
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- Routledge
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- 2025-05-16
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Thomas Klikauer. Ideology, Neoliberalism, and Free Market Competition. 2025. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003502678-5
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