Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights

The standard criticism on the left of neoliberalism, whose ideological core is what Somers Somers aptly calls “market fundamentalism,” is that it harms the economic interests of most people and is bad for the overall functioning of the economy. On the one had, market fundamentalism leads to a rejection of the affirmative state and thus the massive underprovision of a wide range of public goods; on the other hand, weakly regulated markets generate sharp increases in inequality, environmental destruction, risky speculative behavior and economic volatility. In the end, the argument goes, market fundamentalism is both bad for the wellbeing of most people and bad