The end of laissez-faire? : on the durability of embedded neoliberalism

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Author:

Cahill, Damien, author.

ISBN:

9781781000274

Personal Author:

Cahill, Damien, author.

Physical Description:

xii, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

The idealist view of neoliberalism -- Actually existing neoliberalism -- Did neoliberal ideas create the neoliberal state and economy? -- Always embedded neoliberalism -- The class embedded nature of neoliberalism -- Institutionally embedded neoliberalism -- Ideologically embedded neoliberalism -- The global financial crisis and the future of embedded neoliberalism.

Subject Term:

Neoliberalism.

Free enterprise.

Economic policy.

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Summary

When the global financial crisis hit in 2007, many commentators thought it heralded the end of neoliberalism. Several years later, neoliberalism continues to dominate policy making. This book sets out why such commentators got it so wrong, and why neoliberalism remains so durable in the face of crisis.

This book is the first comprehensive critique of the dominant 'ideas-centered' approach to understanding neoliberalism. It offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as a policy regime that is embedded in institutions, class relations and ideological norms. Damien Cahill argues that the socially embedded nature of neoliberalism explains why policy makers continue to use neoliberal policies as forms of crisis response, even though the crisis itself resulted from several decades of neoliberal restructuring. It takes aim at dominant interpretations of neoliberalism, arguing that it is wrongly viewed as reflecting neoliberal free market ideals, or as resulting from the influence of fundamentalist neoliberal intellectuals. The book concludes with a prognosis of the future prospects for neoliberalism.

The End of Laissez-Faire? is a compelling and insightful analysis of neoliberalism, which will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, political science, sociology, political economy, anthropology, human geography, industrial relations and economics-related studies.