The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism The Collapse of an Economic Order?

by Birch, Kean; Mykhnenko, Vlad

• ISBN13: 9781848133488
• ISBN10: 1848133480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic. In particular, the core contradiction at the heart of neoliberalism -- that states are necessary for the functioning of free markets -- provides us with the opportunity to think again about how we want to organise our economies and societies.The Rise and Fall of Neloberalismpresents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response to it from around the world. In bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated activists to question neoliberal hegemony, the book exposes the often fractured and multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which will have to be challenged to bring about meaningful social change.

Author Biography

Kean Birch is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde. Previously he was a research fellow in the Centre for Public Policy for Regions at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests concern the social and geographical basis of different economies and especially the implications that new knowledge, science and technologies have for these economies. He teaches courses on globalisation, neoliberalism and knowledge-based economies.

Vlad Mykhnenko is a research fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Nottingham.  Previously he was a research fellow in the Centre for Public Policy for Regions at the University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Turning the World Right-way Up by Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko * Section I: The Rise of Neoliberalism * Chapter 2: How Neoliberalism Got Where It Is by David Miller * Chapter 3: Making Global Rules by Adam Tickell and Kean Birch * Chapter 4: Neoliberalism, Intellectual Property and the Global Knowledge Economy by David Tyfield * Chapter 5: Neoliberalism and the Calculable World: The Rise of Carbon Trading by Larry Lohmann * Chapter 6: Tightening the Web: The World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform by Elisa Van Waeyenberge * Chapter 7: Neoliberalising post-Soviet Space? Corruption and Transition by Adam Swain, Vlad Mykhnenko and Shaun French * Chapter 8: Remaking the Welfare State: From Safety Net to Trampoline by Julie MacLeavy * Section II: The Fall of Neoliberalism * Chapter 9: Zombieconomics: The Living Death of the Dismal Science by Ben Fine  * Chapter 10: What follows neo-liberalism? The deepening contradictions of US Domination and the Struggle for a New Global Order by Bob Jessop  * Chapter 11: Do It Yourself: A politics for changing our world by Paul Chatterton *  Chapter 12: Dreaming the Real: A Politics of Ethical Spectacles by Paul Routledge * Chapter 13: Transnational Corporations and Transnational Civil Society by Leonith Hinojosa and Anthony Bebbington  * Chapter 14: Anti-neoliberalism or a new socialistic agenda in South America? By Kathya Cordova  * Chapter 15: Opposing neo-liberalism: A Marxist internationalist perspective by Jean Shaoul * Chapter 16: Conclusion by Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko *