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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Dordrecht :
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2012
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| Series: | Educational futures.
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Table of Contents:
- Financial Literacy Education; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Neoliberal Response to the Economic Crisis; READING THE WORD AND THE WORLD; ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAPTERS; NOTES; CHAPTER 1: FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION; INTRODUCTION; THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION IN ONTARIO; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 2: CAPITALIST CRISES, HYPERREAL FINANCE AND CREATIVE DESTRUCTION; INTRODUCTION; CRISIS IN THE 'REAL' ECONOMY; HYPERREAL AND THE REAL; "Sheer Insanity"; Financialization and Ordering the Real.
- FINANCIAL LITERACY, CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AND PERPETUAL ECONOMIC RISKCONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 3: THE ORIGINS OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION: Liberal and Neoliberal Subjectivity; INTRODUCTION; Resources and Subjectivity; THE LIBERAL SUBJECT; Alienation; The Priority of the Right over the Good; NEOLIBERALISM; The (Neo)liberal Consumer: Autonomy and Responsibility Revisited; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: THE ORIGINS OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION: Neoclassical Economics and Consumer Education; INTRODUCTION; THE RISE OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS.
- CONSUMER EDUCATION IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIESThe Cooperative Movement in Canada; Consumer Groups; Home Economics; Business 'Consumer Education' in Schools; Consumer Education: A Critique; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 5: SIGN VALUE AND THE PRODUCTION OF FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION; INTRODUCTION; FINANCIAL LITERACY AND FINANCIAL PRODUCT ADVERTISING; THE SIGN ENVIRONMENT; POLICING SIGN VALUE; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AS SIGN VALUE PRODUCTION; CONCLUSION: THE ETERNAL RETURN OF THE COMMODITY SIGN; NOTES; CHAPTER 6: FINANCIAL LITERACY, DISCIPLINE, BIOPOWER AND GOVERNMENTALITY.
- INTRODUCTIONTHE PROBLEMATIZATION OF POST-FORDIST RISK AND ECONOMIC CRISES; SUBJECTIFICATION/SUBJECTIVIZATION; SUBJECTIFICATION/SUBJECTIVIZATION REVISITED; NORMS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 7: CRITICAL FINANCIAL LITERACY EDUCATION; INTRODUCTION; DENATURALIZATION; CRITICAL INQUIRY; SPECTATORS VS. ACTORS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CONCLUSION: OVERCOMING OBSTACLES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
