Financial Literacy Education : Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizen.
Consumer financial literacy education often appears as a helpful, commonsense solution to neoliberalism and the individualization of responsibility for economic risk. However, in Financial Literacy Education: Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizen this particular literacy is argued to be both i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
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2012
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| Series: | Educational futures.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Consumer financial literacy education often appears as a helpful, commonsense solution to neoliberalism and the individualization of responsibility for economic risk. However, in Financial Literacy Education: Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizen this particular literacy is argued to be both ineffective and unjust. Socially created poverty, unemployment and economic insecurity require more than individual consumer solutions; they require collective responses by engaged, critical citizens. Utilizing concepts from Marx, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard this book challenges those who clai. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (152 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789460919183 9460919189 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
