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The Consumer, Credit and Neoliberalism : Governing the Modern Economy.
This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key B...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The Consumer, Credit and Neoliberalism; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and table; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Neoliberalism and governmentality; 1.1 Neoliberalism and the consumer; 1.2 Governmentality as method; 1.3 The cast of characters; 1.4 Chapter outline; 2. Constructing the consumer; 2.1 Economics and progressive liberalism before the Great Depression; 2.2 Keynes, the macro problem and the social world; 2.3 Problematizing worker-savers 'making up' the consumer; 2.4 Concluding remarks; 3. Diagnosing the British economy.
- 3.1 Problematizing Keynesianism3.2 Towards a genealogy of crisis; 3.3 Neoliberalism and social evolution; 4. How to govern the economy; 4.1 From Preston to Stockton: 'monetarism is not enough'; 4.2 Stepping stones to the 'healthy society'; 4.3 How to govern the economy and reconstitute society; 4.4 Conclusion: inflation first; 5. Governing for the consumer; 5.1 'The quiet revolution'; 5.2 Freedom for the consumer; 5.3 The first crisis of neoliberal governmentality; 6. Misidentification and crisis; 6.1 Reasserting the social?; 6.2 Revamping monetary policy; 6.3 Practising New Keynesianism.
- 6.4 The crisis of neoliberal governmentality7. The American sub-prime homeowner consumer; 7.1 The politics of home ownership; 7.2 Financial innovation, debt and home ownership; 7.3 Blaming government, not bankers; 7.4 Relying on others: setting the limits of possibility for neoliberalism; 8. Conclusion: Problematizing the consumer; 8.1 Capitalism and governmentality; Notes; Bibliography; Index.