The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market EraThe epochal shift toward neoliberalism a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word neoliberal is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs