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Blazing the Neoliberal Trail : Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom /

"Blazing the Neoliberal Trail" asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. Drawing on extensive archival research, Timothy P. R. Weaver shows how elites became persuaded by neoliberal ideas and remade political insti...

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Autor principal: Weaver, Timothy P. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction
  • The neoliberalization of national urban policy. Losing the battle but winning the war : the story of the Federal Enterprise Zone program that never was : 1980-1992 ; Dealing with those inner cities : the neoliberal turn in British urban policy ; Blair and Clinton : a third way?
  • Neoliberalism in the trenches : urban politics in Philadelphia and London. Neoliberalism in the trenches : Philadelphia 1951-1991 ; "America's mayor" comes to power in Philadelphia : the consolidation of the corporate city under Ed Rendell ; Neoliberalism by design : poverty and plenty in London's docklands
  • Conclusion. The neoliberal persuasion.