neoliberalism’s pretensions of universalism and over-idealization of the market ignored the deep inequality that existed between and within nations: ‘Applied as a broad, one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing impoverished and traumatised post-Soviet and postcolonial nations (as well as increasingly multicultural countries in the west, with complicated histories of their own), neoliberalism couldn’t help but be disastrous for many people.’6
