Cargando…
Alternatives to neoliberalism : towards equality and democracy /
With contributions from innovative social and policy analysts including Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson and Ted Benton, this collection provides a revised framework for social democracy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Bristol :
Policy Press,
2017.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Figures
- Tables
- Box
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Editors' preface
- Introduction. The open-market society and its opponents: an overview
- Beginnings and ambitions
- Neoliberal ideology and its reality
- Inconvenient realities: free markets or new corporate baronies and empires?
- Neoliberal governance: a soft totalitarianism?
- Challenges to the neoliberal consensus
- Summary: towards a 'trilateral rebalancing'
- Part One. Alternative paradigms and perspectives
- 1. Modes of anti-neoliberalism: moralism, Marxism and 21st century socialism
- Moralism versus neoliberalism
- Neoliberalism makes you ill
- Radical materialism: ecology versus neoliberalism
- Radical democracy
- Radical modernity
- Cybernetic revolution
- Potent collectivities and neoliberal hegemony
- Confronting capitalist power
- 21st century strategy
- 2. People, planet, power: toward a new social settlement
- Introduction
- Goals
- Objectives
- Policy proposals for change
- In conclusion
- 3. Beyond neoliberalism, or life after capitalism? A red-green debate
- Introduction
- Contradictions of the present
- Alternatives?
- A sustainable capitalism?
- System change and alternatives to capitalism?
- 4. The democratic deficit: institutional democracy
- Describing radicalism: early 19th century democratic legacies
- From social democracy to neoliberalism
- Institutional democracy
- The scope of institutional democracy: a democratic rebalancing
- Conclusion
- Part Two. Reform within economic and governance restraints: pushing the boundaries
- 5. The limits of neoliberalism? Austerity versus social policy in comparative perspective
- Introduction
- The unholy alliance of austerity and neoliberalism.
- Neoliberalism and austerity: always and everywhere?
- Austerity-lite or not at all: fiscal consolidation and the IMF
- Small acts of resistance: Iceland
- Conclusions
- 6. The European Union and the UK: neoliberalism, nationalist populism, or a cry for democracy?
- Introduction
- Contradictions in the changing EU project
- The UK referendum campaign and its implications for political change
- Prospects for neoliberalism and post-referendum opposition to it
- Is another EU possible
- is another UK possible?
- Conclusion
- 7. Reform from within? Central banks and the reconfiguration of neoliberal monetary policy
- Introduction
- All change at the Bank of England?
- The 'science of monetary policy'
- What has happened to volatility?
- What has happened to interest rates and government bond yields?
- The emergence of different rationalities of CB management and calculation?
- An alternative central banking world?
- Conclusions
- 8. The corporate cuckoo in the neoliberal nest: reconnecting civil society with big business
- Why is big business such a social, political and environmental scourge?
- Social movement challenges: from responsibility to accountability
- The fiction of corporate ownership: management versus shareholder interests
- Reforms to rein in corporate oligarchies
- Conclusion
- 9. Avoiding 'back to the future' policies by reforming the 'foundational economy'
- The foundational economy: another show in town
- Rewriting the script for the other show: rejecting utopianism
- The social licence: making the foundational economy part of the constitution
- Part Three. Economic and political democracy: restoring the market-civil society balance
- 10. Neoliberalism and social democracy
- The democratic deficit of neoliberalism
- Markets and diversity
- Finding a social base for opposition
- Conclusion.
- 11. Rethinking public ownership as economic democracy
- Introduction
- Reluctant return of public ownership: its aftermath in the capitalist heartland
- Seeds of an alternative: emergent forms of democratic public ownership
- Confronting Hayekian thinking and its limits
- Principles for constructing democratic public ownership
- Constructing economic democracy: learning from actually existing alternatives
- Conclusion
- 12. Turning the tide: a role for social movements
- Distinctiveness and origins
- Radical social movements' aims after 2008
- Moving on from Occupy: social bases for political action
- Social movements, political parties and the state
- In sum
- Conclusion. A Brexit from neoliberalism?
- Introduction
- Resetting the boundaries between state, market and civil society: a trilateral rebalancing
- 'Lifeworld' values to integrate welfare, environment and democracy
- Policy priorities: 'land, labour and money'. Restoring the commons
- Political and institutional challenges to alternatives
- In sum
- Index.