The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism :The Collapse of an Economic Order? ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :The Collapse of an Economic Order?

Publication series :1

Author: Bebbington   Tony;Chatterton   Doctor Paul;Routledge   Doctor Paul  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2010

E-ISBN: 9781848133501

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781848133488

Subject: F0-0 Marxisms Plutonomy (GENERAL);F06 A branch of economics science

Keyword: 经济学分支科学,马克思主义政治经济学(总论),经济学

Language: ENG

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Presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response to it from around the world. This book exposes the often fractured and multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which may have to be challenged to bring about meaningful social change.

Chapter

Varieties of Neoliberalization: Poor Results and Divergent Trajectories

Financialization and the New Neoliberal Order

Conclusion: Collapse of the Global Neoliberal Economic Order?

References

PART ONE • THE RISE OF NEOLIBERALISM

1 How Neoliberalism Got Where It Is: Elite Planning, Corporate Lobbying and the Release of the Free Market

Putting the Architecture in Place

Elite Planning and the Rise of Thatcherism in Britain

Global Elite Planning

Conclusion: the Battle of Ideas

References

2 Making Neoliberal Order in the United States

The Politics of Neoliberalism: the Rise of the Conservative Movement

Making the Neoliberal-Conservative Order

Conclusion

References

3 Neoliberalism, Intellectual Property and the Global Knowledge Economy

Neoliberalism and the Primitive Accumulation of Knowledge Production

What is TRIPs? Effects and Significance

The US Life Sciences Patent Coalition

Conclusion: Post-TRIPs Developments and the Current Crisis

Notes

References

4 Neoliberalism and the Calculable World: the Rise of Carbon Trading

What is Carbon Trading?

Box 4.1 Carbon Market Construction in Brief

Disembedding and Re-embedding: a Second Stage

Finance and Securitization

Conclusion

References

5 Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform

From Structural Adjustment to Performance-Based Aid

Inside Performance-Based Aid (PBA)

Box 5.1: CPIA Criteria

Beyond the Washington Consensus in World Bank Aid Policies?

Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Knowledge

Conclusion

Notes

References

6 The Corruption Industry and Transition: Neoliberalizing Post-Soviet Space?

Neoliberalism in Crisis: Elephant in the Room or Apparition?

The Post-Soviet ‘Corruption Industry’

Figure 6.1. Academic journal publications on the topics of corruption, rent seeking and neoliberalism

Figure 6.2. Academic journal publications on the topic of corruptionin post-communist transition states

Table 6.1. Corruption and corruption-related indexes and benchmarks of post-Soviet countries

Figure 6.3. Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, 2008

Conclusion: Neoliberalism and Corruption

Acknowledgements

References

7 Remaking the Welfare State: from Safety Net to Trampoline

The Decline of the Post-War Welfare State

Neoliberalism and the Workfare State: Key Features

Repositioning Workfare

Conclusion

Note

References

PART TWO • THE FALL OF NEOLIBERALISM

8 Zombieconomics: the Living Death of the Dismal Science

From Marginalist to Formalist Revolution

From Formalist to Keynesian Revolution

From Keynesian Revolution to Monetarist Counter-Revolution

From Monetarist Counter-Revolution to Zombieconomics

Conclusion

Notes

References

9 From Hegemony to Crisis? The Continuing Ecological Dominance of Neoliberalism

A Typology of Efforts at Neoliberalization

Neoliberalism and Economic Determination

Table 9.1. Factors relevant to ecological dominance in the relations among societal systems

How Neoliberal Globalization Favoured Capital’s Ecological Dominance

Conclusions

Note

References

10 Do It Yourself: a Politics for Changing our World

The (Re)birth of a New Kind of Politics

DIY politics

Detours in DIY Politics: Autonomous Social Centres in the UK

Seven Principles for a Politics to Change our World

Conclusion: from the Ashes of the Crash

Notes

References

11 Dreaming the Real: a Politics of Ethical Spectacles

Introduction: Manufacturing Dissent

Sites of Intervention: Cultural Activism

Dreaming the Real

The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

Figure 11.1: CIRCA help out with security at Faslane nuclear submarine base, Scotland, July 2005

Figure 11.2: CIRCA at the Make Poverty History: Shut Down the G8 Demonstration, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005

Conclusion: Ethical Spectacles and Full Spectrum Resistance

Notes

References

12 Transnational Companies and Transnational Civil Society

Neoliberal Policies and Mining as a State Financial Strategy

Neoliberal Mining Expansion, Social Conflict and Civil Society Organizations

Mining and Socio-environmental Conflicts in the Andes

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

13 Defeating Neoliberalism: a Marxist Internationalist Perspective and Programme

Neoliberalism: a Response to Developments within the Economic System

Financialization: the New Mode of Capital Accumulation

The Financial and Economic Crisis of Neoliberalism

Defeating Global Capitalism: Challenges and Lessons

The Way Forward

References

CONCLUSION • The End of an Economic Order?

The Beginning of the End for Neoliberal Ideology. . .

. . . and Western Hegemony

Picking through Neoliberal Wreckage: towards a New ‘Old Morals Capitalism’?

References

Index

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