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Hard times: the human face of neo-liberalism

Successive governments have promoted policies which entrench a punitive and controlling way of managing public institutions.

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Neo-liberalism isn’t just an economic doctrine. With its obsession with money and markets and targets and competition, it also shapes our emotional cultures. But how does it get under the skin and into the way we relate to one another in public institutions as well as private life?