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      Names: Chamayou, Grégoire, author. | Brown, Andrew, translator.

      Title: The ungovernable society : a genealogy of authoritarian liberalism / Grégoire Chamayou ; translated by Andrew Brown.

      Other titles: Société ingouvernable. English

      Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A brilliant work that shows how the political contours of our contemporary neoliberal societies took shape in the crisis-laden decade of the 1970s”-- Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020032896 (print) | LCCN 2020032897 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509542000 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509542017 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509542024 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Free enterprise--History. | Capitalism--History. | Liberalism--History. | Labor discipline--History.

      Classification: LCC HB95 .C47613 2021(print) | LCC HB95(ebook) | DDC 330.12/2--dc23

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