At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that - post-apocalypse - we've woken into a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political c…
After the financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead - stronger than ever. Philip Mirowski argues that neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to convince disciples of its ultimate truth and provides the basis for an an…
After financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead - stronger than ever. At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. A…
Just as economists struggle today to justify the free market after the global economic crisis, an earlier generation revisited their worldview after The Great Depression. In this intellectual history of that project, Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in ord…
Written with a clear and thematic structure, this volume combines a variety of approaches to neoliberal planning, exposing the growing diversity within the neoliberal urban policy implementation. A variety of case studies are discussed, which help define the realities of neolibe…
This book argues that the concepts of ' neoliberalism' and ' neoliberalisation, ' while in common use across the whole range of social sciences, have thus far been generally overlooked in planning theory and the analysis of planning practice. Offering insights from papers presen…
In recent times, policy makers, scientists, academics and commentators have become increasingly nervous about the US economic downturn. Discussions have centred around the range and magnitude of the country' s socio-economic problems, its vexing production decline and its unsati…
In the late 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated a number of controversial lectures on the subject of neoliberalism. Had Foucault been seduced by neoliberalism? Did France's premier leftist intellectual, near the end of his career, turn to the right? In this book, Geoffroy de Lagasn…
"Geographer and social theorist David Harvey offers a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neo-liberalism, the spread of ineq…
"Geographer and social theorist David Harvey offers a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neo-liberalism, the spread of ineq…
"Collection of essays written from 1985 to 2010 by the American socialist feminist philosopher and critical theorist. Fraser describes developments within feminism since the 1970s and argues for a reinvogorated feminist radicalism able to address the global economic crisis."
During the ferment of the New Left, "Second Wave" feminism emerged as a struggle for womenʹs liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminismʹs subsequent immersion in identity politics coinci…
*SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES* 'Hard-hitting, well written and informative' Martin Wolf, Financial Times Global finance is a system that works for the few and against the many. We need finance - but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse. The City…