9. Concluding Remarks

This concluding chapter focuses on the alternative policy vision emerging from the investigation pursued in this book. The unsustainability of the neoliberal development trajectory suggests a few directions where an effective therapy should focus its efforts. The ultimate cause of this disease is a simplistic and distorted concept of liberty reducing it to its negative side of mere defence of individuals from the interference of the state. This also distorts the therapeutic approach to the negative consequences of this disease. The misleading attempt to reduce the policy constraints imposed on market actors leads to a form of casuistic regulation that is more complex and oppressive than previous forms of regulation. The solution of the neoliberal trilemma requires the taming of neoliberal financial globalisation.