ABSTRACT
This chapter combines the disparate sociological-political and cognitive-psychological theories, concepts, and empirical findings reviewed throughout the monograph into a unified macro-, meso-, and micro-level cognitive-sociological theory on the determinants of Anglo-American neoliberalism. More specifically, I provide a detailed illustration and explanation of how the major proximal and distal causal mechanisms and moderators that I have extracted from relevant political-economy, sociology, cognitive science, media-communication, and developmental psychology research, work together to generate neoliberal subjects and reproduce neoliberalism in Britain and America. Next, I review some of the present and projected socio-political and environmental problems engendered by domestic and global neoliberalism. Finally, to help address these problems, the chapter and book end with a list of policy proposals for structural changes to our current systems of perpetual consumption and economic growth; unregulated capital and finance; and unrepresentative and unaccountable, so-called “representative” democracies.
