Eminent scholaractivist Neil Davidsonampamprsquos brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era.While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions or as an era of capitalist development with its own logicBringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. What Was Neoliberalism holds fast to Davidsonampamprsquos conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future.