Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas

by Roy; Ravi K.

• ISBN13: 9780415700900
• ISBN10: 0415700906
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Critics of globalization often portray neoliberalism as an extremist laissez-faire political-economic philosophy that rejects any sort of government intervention in the domestic economy. Like most over-used terms, it is more complicated than this introductory sentence suggests. This volume, prefaced by Eric Helliener, seeks to move beyond these caricature depictions and definitions as well as the emotional rhetoric that has unfortunately dominated both the scholastic and political debate on neoliberalism and global market-oriented reform. This book emphasizes that there are in fact a variety of neoliberalisms that share a common emphasis on market-oriented approaches. Beyond this however, its usages and applications appear much more varied according to the cultural, economic, political, and social context in which it is used.A host of eminent contributors, including Douglass C. North, Arthur T. Denzau, Thomas D. Willett, Mark Blyth, Colin Hay, Craig Parsons, and others provide a rigorous assessment of the significance of neoliberal ideas on economic policy. Through their detailed international case studies, the contributors to this book show how varied its impact has in fact been and the result is a book that will stimulate further debate in this most controversial of subject matters.AccreditationRavi K. Roy is a Research Scholar at the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies. Arthur T. Denzau is Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is also a Research Associate at the Center for American Business at Washington University (St. Louis). Thomas D. Willett is Horton Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is also Director of the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xvi
List of tables	p. xvii
Preface	p. xviii
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Conceptual analysis: shared mental modelsand neoliberalism	p. 1
Introduction: neoliberalism as a shared mental model	p. 3
Shared mental models: a postscript	p. 14
The meanings of neoliberalism	p. 26
The genealogy of neoliberalism	p. 51
When liberalisms change: comparing the politics of deflations and inflations	p. 71
Evolution in macroeconomics: principles, policy, and performance	p. 97
National and regional experiments with neoliberal mental models	p. 115
The neoliberal shift in US fiscal policy from the 1980s to the 1990s: a shared mental model approach to understanding coalition-driven policy shifts	p. 117
Shared mental models and active labor market policy in Britain and Ireland: ideational coalitions and divergent policy trajectories	p. 135
Neoliberalism isn't enough: on the interaction of the neoliberal and Europeanist shared mental models in the European Union	p. 160
Neoliberal reform in the post-communist world: mental models in the transition from plan to market	p. 185
The clash of mental models in the Middle East: neoliberal versus Islamic ideas	p. 206
Experiments with neoliberalism in India: shattering of a mental model	p. 229
East Asia and neoliberal mental models	p. 257
Mental models of the economy and economic policy in Indonesia	p. 269
The usefulness of the shared mental model framework for understanding Latin American economic history: from dependencia to neoliberalism	p. 296
The absence of social capital and the failure of the Ghanian neoliberal mental model	p. 307
Index	p. 333
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