Neoliberalism and Insecurity in Advanced Capitalism

Michael A. Long is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Insecurity and Inequality Research at Oklahoma State University. He has written widely on food insecurity, environmental sociology, sustainability, public health, and quantitative methodology. His most recent book is Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data (with P. Stretesky, K. Berry, J. Johnston, M. Lynch, 2023).Andrew S. Fullerton is Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. He has written widely on job insecurity, quantitative methodology, social stratification, and political sociology. He has published several articles on regression models for ordinal outcomes and a book titled Ordered Regression Models: Parallel, Partial, and Non‑Parallel Alternatives (with J. Xu, 2016).Paul B. Stretesky is Professor of Criminology and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests include food insecurity, environmental crime and justice, quantitative methods, and violence. His most recent book, Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data (2023), was co‑authored with M. Long, K. Berry, J. Johnston, and M. Lynch.

• 1. Introduction2. Neoliberalism in the Global North and South3. The Political Economy of Food and Food Insecurity4. The Political Economy of Energy and Energy Insecurity5. The Political Economy of Work and Job Insecurity6. Neoliberal Governmentality, Competition, Individual Responsibility, and Insecurity7. The Space of US Neoliberal Capitalism8. Conclusion