| There has been at least 60 years that neo-liberalism emerged as a theoretical phenomenon. It include many branches who advocate economy-liberalism and oppose keynesianism simultaneously. They preach the policy of privatization, marketization, non-intervention and free trade. After 1979, British and America began to reform their economy in the light of the doctrines of neo-liberalism and soon this trend spread to other developed countries. Since the medium-term of 1980s, neo-liberalism has been developed gradually to the economic,political and ideological programmes of international-monopoly capitalism. "Washington Consensus" is the typical form of the politicalized neo-liberalism. Those developing or tranmitting countries, which carried on economic reforms during the last decade of the 20th.Cen with the guide of "Washington Consensus", made a great deal of economic, political and social crisis instead of development. Latin-American and Eastern-European countries are 2 areas that are heavily affected by neo-liberalism.In recent years, a great tide of discussing, reproaching and resisting neo-liberalism rose among international communities. After inspecting the theories and practices of neo-liberalism, this thesis will preliminarily reveal the essence of neo-liberalism and point out what is our rational and scientific attitude towards neo-liberalism. The first chapter explains the meaning of neo-liberalism and unlocks its historic inevitability. The following chapter focuses on the theories of neo-liberalism. After summarizing five general principium, this chapter concentrate on the main standpoint of five neo-liberalism schools, namely, Hayek's liberalism, Monetarism School, Rational-Expectation School, Public-Choice School and Modern Property-Rights School. Chapter three concerns the neo-liberalism reforms and their consequences in different countries. America, Argentina and Russia are three typical samples. What the last chapter concern are displaying the destructive influence that neo-liberalism exerts on China in recent years, revealing the internal essence of neo-liberalism, explaining what is the rational and scientific attitude China should hold ,and finally commenting on a heating issue that China should take Cose Property Theory as the instruction of the reform of state-owned enterprises or not. |
