Marquand The New Reckoning

Capitalism, States and Citizens
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7770-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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We are told that this is a new world, with which old theoriescannot cope. But the dynamic driving the current globaltransformation is not as new as our pundits and politicianspretend. The global market-place of our day may have little incommon with the tamed welfare capitalism of the post-war period butit is uncannily reminiscent of the untamed capitalism of 100 yearsago. Keynes and Beveridge may be dead, but Marx, Malthus andRicardo have had a new lease of life.
In these timely essays, David Marquand challenges thefashionable amnesia of the 1990s and addresses the crucialquestions raised by the capitalist renaissance which has followedthe collapse of Communism and the end of the cold war. In thisbewildering new world, which is at the same time anall-too-familiar old world, how can the values of social solidarityand democratic citizenship be realized? Granted that socialism isno longer with us, does it have anything to say from beyond thegrave?
How is socialism's great antagonist, liberalism, faring in thisnew world, and what are the prospects of an accommodation betweenthe two? Where does the new medievalism of contemporary Europe fitin? How do the special peculiarities of the British state, theidentity it embodies and the political economy over which itpresides relate to those wider issues? What room for maneuver dothey give the British left? These questions make up the agenda forThe New Reckoning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marquand, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
1. Journey to an Unknown Destination.
Part I: Capitalism, Socialism and Citizenship:.
2. Reinventing Civic Republicanism.
3. After Socialism.
4. Liberalism's Revenge? Resolving the Progressive Dilemma.
Part II: Europe:.
5. The Politics of Monetary Union.
6. The New Medievalism.
7. Reinventing Federalism.
Part III: Britain:.
8. History Derailed?.
9. The Enterprise Culture: Old Wine in New Bottles?.
10. Henry Dubb versus Sceptred Awe.
11. Collaborative Capitalism and Constitutional Reform.
12. Travels of an Ancien Régime.
Notes.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Marquand is Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford and Honorary Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield.