See Arestis and Sawyer, "The Neoliberal Experience of the United Kingdom"; and Campbell, "The Birth of Neoliberalism in the United States:
1 6 Cohen, A Consumers' Republic, 393·
1 7 For a thorough discussion of the ways in which consent to neoliberalism was constructed, see Harvey, A Short History of Neoliberalism, chapter 2.
1 8 Pollin, Contours of Descent, 173.
19 Lebowitz, "Ideology and Economic Development;' �5-16.
20 Shaikh, "The Economic Mythology of Neoliberalism:' See also Perelman, The Confiscation of American Prosperity.
21 Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies, 6.
22 Ibid., 8.
23 Ibid., 10.
24 Zizek, The Ticklish Subject, 4·
25 See Derber, People bej01:e Ptofit, 37-38.
26 Global Report on Human Settlements, The Challenge of Slums, 40.
27 Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies, 32.
For an elaboration of the notion of anxiety here, see Copjec, "May <sup>'</sup>68, the Emotional Month:' In the experience of anxiety, Copjec writes, "One has the sense not only of being chained to an enjoyment that outstrips and precedes one, but also of the opacity of this enjoyment, its incomprehensibility and unassumablity;' 105.
Gordon .Bigelow describes the early popularity of the notion of the free market among evangelical Christians in England. They believed the free market carried out the wil of God, rewarding the good and punishing sinners. Be<sub>�</sub>ause al are born in sin, "the sweat of hard labor, the fear of poverty, the self-denial involved in saving" provided means of atonement. Helping the poor would deny them this opportunity to atone, and thus damn their immortal souls. See Bigelow, "Let There Be Markets:'
A fuller account would need to address the importance of global Christian televisioE. networks such as the Trinity Broadcasting Company, televangelism, and the growth of Christian publishing, bookstores, and rock music, the emergence, in other words, of an alternative Christian society alongside and within secular civil society. It would also need to consider the Word-Faith or Name It and Claim It thread of charismatic Christianity (an outgrowth of the doctrine of the power of positive thinking) that urges adherents to choose prosperity. Among the more well-known advocates of the gospel of gaining wealth through Jesus are Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland.
Goldberg, Kingdom Coming, 58.
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