Though neoliberalism has faced renewed challenges in recent years, it nonetheless remains the dominant ideology throughout much of the West. This book brings together a stellar group of social and policy analysts to mount a powerful challenge to neoliberal framing and policies. The disparate contributions of these contributorswhose numbers include Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson, and Ted Benton, among othersare then synthesized by the editors into a larger framework for social democracy, one that is rooted in feminism, environmentalism, democratic equality, and the accountability of the market to the greater needs of civil society. Designed for both teaching and research, planning and practice, it will be invaluable for both politics and policy in the years ahead.
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"If like me, you often wonder what ideas and beliefs and driving our current political, economic and social policies...and what can be done to change the ideas and policies to achieve different consequences...Then this is definitely a book to read and talk about." Chartist an interesting and challenging read. Liberation "How can we change the power structures buttressing neo-liberalism? Alternatives to Neoliberalism offers fresh, actionable strategies for sustainable and democratised change." Thomas Marois, SOAS, University of London
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Foreword |
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| Editors' preface |
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| Introduction: The open-market society and its opponents: an overview |
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Part One Alternative paradigms and perspectives |
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One Modes of anti-neoliberalism: moralism, Marxism and 21st century socialism |
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Two People, planet, power: toward a new social settlement |
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Three Beyond neoliberalism, or life after capitalism? A red-green debate |
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Four The democratic deficit: institutional democracy |
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Part Two Reform within economic and governance restraints: pushing the boundaries |
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Five The limits of neoliberalism? Austerity versus social policy in comparative perspective |
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Six The European Union and the UK: neoliberalism, nationalist populism, or a cry for democracy? |
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Seven Reform from within? Central banks and the reconfiguration of neoliberal monetary policy |
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Eight The corporate cuckoo in the neoliberal nest: reconnecting civil society with big business |
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Nine Avoiding `back to the future' policies by reforming the `foundational economy' |
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Part Three Economic and political democracy: restoring the market-civil society balance |
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Ten Neoliberalism and social democracy |
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Eleven Rethinking public ownership as economic democracy |
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Twelve Turning the tide: a role for social movements |
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| Conclusion: A Brexit from neoliberalism? |
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Bryn Jones, author of Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism, has taught, researched and published on economic and political change in European, Asian and North American societies; Mike O'Donnell has taught widely in Britain and the United States, including at Bath Spa University before moving to Westminster University, retiring as Professor of Sociology in 2014. He has published in the areas of social theory, social movements and identity and difference
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