Ideology Resurgent? Neoliberalism as Economic-Corporate Project for the Few

Through a focus on the main economic think tanks and the 2002 congress of the ruling party, this chapter discusses how neoliberalism increasingly became a guide for economic policy-making. However, the failure of neoliberalism to penetrate into wider society witnesses the inability on the part of the new business class to go beyond the ‘economic-corporate moment’ and fulfil its hegemonic potential.