Crouch The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3759-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, E-Book

The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge toneo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted thepolitical orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades.Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off thischallenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to beabout free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominanceover public life of the giant corporation. This has beenintensified, not checked, by the recent financial crisis andacceptance that certain financial corporations are 'too bigto fail'. Although much political debate remains preoccupied withconflicts between the market and the state, the impact of thecorporation on both these is today far more important.
Several factors have brought us to this situation:
* The lobbying power of firms whose donations are of growingimportance to cash-hungry politicians and parties
* The weakening of competitive forces by firms large enough toshape and dominate their markets
* The moral initiative that is grasped by enterprises that devisetheir own agendas of corporate social responsibility
Both democratic politics and the free market are weakened bythese processes, but they are largely inevitable and not alwaysmalign. Hope for the future, therefore, cannot lie in suppressingthem in order to attain either an economy of pure markets or asocialist society. Rather it lies in dragging the giant corporationfully into political controversy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crouch, Colin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi
Preface vii
About this Book xi
1 The Previous Career of Neoliberalism 1
2 The Market and Its Limitations 24
3 The Corporate Takeover of the Market 49
4 Private Firms and Public Business 71
5 Privatized Keynesianism: Debt in Place of Discipline 97
6 From Corporate Political Entanglement to Corporate Social Responsibility 125
7 Values and Civil Society 144
8 What's Left of What's Right? 162
References 181
Further Reading 184
Index 187

Über Autor(innen)

COLIN CROUCH is Professor of Governance and Public Management at Warwick Business School, Fellow of the British Academy, and expert consultant to the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD. His previous publications include Post-Democracy.