The Neoliberal Revolution: Forging the Market State

by Richard Robison

Overview

The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spread of market economies and how neo-liberal agendas are accommodated or hijacked in collisions with authoritarian states and populist oligarchies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403997159
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/28/2006
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	287
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

HAROON AKRAM-LODHI Teaches Rural Economics and Rural Economic Methodology, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands SHAUN BRESLIN Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK ANDREW GAMBLE Professor of Politics and Joint Director of the Political Economy Research Centre, University of Sheffield, UK VEDI R. HADIZ Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Singapore, Singapore GRAHAM HARRISON Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield, UK WIL HOUT Associate Professor of World Development, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands KANISHKA JAYASURIYA Principal Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia HANS OVERSLOOT Teaches Political Theory in the Department of Political Science, Leiden University, and Russian Politics in the Russian Studies Programme, Leiden University, The Netherlands GARRY RODAN Director of the Asia Research Centre and Professor of Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University, Australia PATRICIO SILVA Professor of Modern Latin American History, Department of Latin American Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands WILLIAM K. TABB Teaches Political Economy, Economics Department, Queens College, City University of New York, USA BEN THIRKELL-WHITE Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Robison PART I: NEO-LIBERALISM AND THE MARKET STATE: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES Neo-Liberalism and the Market State: What is the Idea Shell?; R.Robison Two Faces of Neo-Liberalism; A.Gamble PART II: NEO-LIBERLISM AND ITS GLOBAL TRANSIT Neo-Liberalism in Latin America: Legitimacy, Depoliticization and Technocratic Rule in Chile; P.Silva Neo-Liberalism in the Russian Federation; H.Oversloot Corruption and Neo-Liberal Reform: Markets and Predatory Power in Indonesia and Southeast Asia; V.R.Hadiz Neo-Liberalism and the Persistence of Clientism in Africa; G.Harrison Serving the Market or Serving the Party: Neo-Liberalism in China; S.Breslin PART III: CONFLICT WITHIN THE NEO-LIBERAL CAMP The Wall Street, Treasury, IMF Complex After Asia: Neo-Liberalism in Decline? B.Thirkell-White What's in a Name? Neo-Conservative Ideology, Neo-Liberalism and Globalization; H.Akram-Lodhi Mr Bush and Neo-Liberalism; W.K.Tabb PART IV: THE NEO-LIBERAL FUTURE Neo-Liberalism and Transparency: Political Versus Economic Liberalism; G.Rodan European Social Democracy and the Neo-Liberal Global Agenda: A Resurgent Influence or Recapitulation; W.Hout Economic Constitutionalism, Neo-Liberalism and the New Welfare Governance; K.Jayasuriya Bibliography Index