Chapter
Varieties of Neoliberalization: Poor Results and Divergent Trajectories
Financialization and the New Neoliberal Order
Conclusion: Collapse of the Global Neoliberal Economic Order?
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
Conclusion: the Battle of Ideas
2 Making Neoliberal Order in the United States
The Politics of Neoliberalism: the Rise of the Conservative Movement
Making the Neoliberal-Conservative Order
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
4 Neoliberalism and the Calculable World: the Rise of Carbon Trading
Box 4.1 Carbon Market Construction in Brief
Disembedding and Re-embedding: a Second Stage
Finance and Securitization
5 Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform
From Structural Adjustment to Performance-Based Aid
Inside Performance-Based Aid (PBA)
Beyond the Washington Consensus in World Bank Aid Policies?
Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Knowledge
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
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
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
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
10 Do It Yourself: a Politics for Changing our World
The (Re)birth of a New Kind of 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
11 Dreaming the Real: a Politics of Ethical Spectacles
Introduction: Manufacturing Dissent
Sites of Intervention: Cultural Activism
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
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
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
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’?