Individualism and Cultural Embeddedness

January 20, 2022 00:07:24
Individualism and Cultural Embeddedness
Culture and Value
Individualism and Cultural Embeddedness

Jan 20 2022 | 00:07:24

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Show Notes

Mark English talks about his general goal of presenting and defending a form of individualism which takes seriously our cultural embeddedness, noting that universal political prescriptions – to the extent that they can be applied at all – are rarely successful. He refers to the surprising origins of neo-liberalism in Europe in the 1930s. The European neo-liberals were keen to distance themselves from earlier, laissez-faire approaches to economics and emphasized the importance of cultural factors.

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