Expanding on various sociological analyses proposed by Bourdieu and Foucault among others, Loic Wacquant puts forth some insightful arguments in “Crafting the Neoliberal State.” He views the resurgence of Neoliberalism in the 1970’s as a rejection (decline) of the “nanny state,” a Fordist-Keynesian economic model popular after WWII. Moreover, this new direction in free-market capitalism by the US political elite acts as a template for other western developed nations. Typical policies of the Reagan/Thatcher era characterized by downsizing, tax cuts for business, deregulation, and outsourcing, created structural societal change reinforcing a polarized class structure. A “centaur state, liberal at the top and paternalistic at the bottom,”(Wacquant,