Books on Neoliberalism?

[soup]

Do you guys know any good books on neoliberalism? Where it's come from, how it works, where it's going, etc?

[ckaihatsu]

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Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 1122
May 25, 2015

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Polarizing Development:

Introducing Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis

Taken from Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (2015), edited by Lucia Pradella and Thomas Marois, Pluto Press. Available online at www.plutobooks.com. We thank Pluto Press for permission to reproduce this excerpt.

Thomas Marois and Lucia Pradella

Neoliberal economic policies, with their emphasis on market-led development and individual rationality, have been exposed as bankrupt not only by the global economic crisis but also by increasing social opposition and resistance. Social movements and critical scholars in Latin America, East Asia, Europe and the United States, alongside the Arab uprisings, have triggered renewed debate on possible different futures. While for some years any discussion of substantive alternatives has been marginalized, the global crisis since 2008 has opened up new spaces to debate, and indeed to radically rethink, the meaning of development. Debates on developmental change are no longer tethered to the pole of ‘reform and reproduce’: a new pole of ‘critique and strategy beyond’ neoliberal capitalism has emerged.

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Despite being forcefully challenged, neoliberalism has proven remarkably resilient. In the first years since the crisis erupted, the bulk of the alternative literature pointed to continued growth in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and in other big emerging market countries to affirm the necessary role for the state in sustaining capitalist development. New developmental economists have consequently reasserted themselves. Their proposals converged into a broader demand for global Keynesianism (Patomäki, 2012) – a demand that is proving to be less and less realistic in the face of a deepening global economic crisis.

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[JayBro47]

Let's not shill for the "BRICS" and Russian Nationalism shall we? Fascists do that. Actual Fascists called Third Positionists, Eurasianists and so forth. Least they aren't too-powerful.

Here someone sent me this:

http://www.sok.bz/web/media/video/ABriefHistoryNeoliberalism.pdf

[JayBro47]

Oops lol sent the David Harvey one! Sorry :o

[JayBro47]

I suggest watching the Documentary Roger and Me or The Big One by Michael Moore ;)

[ckaihatsu]

Let's not shill for the "BRICS" and Russian Nationalism shall we? Fascists do that. Actual Fascists called Third Positionists, Eurasianists and so forth. Least they aren't too-powerful.


You're misinterpreting -- the article is saying that the BRICS have historically been seen as being more 'pulled together' under group state oversight, for sustained economic development in common. This modest 'success story', though, under the aegis of an anti-neoliberal (anti-austerity) program of nominal Keynesianism, is now hitting the wall, anyway, due to continued global conditions of economic stagnation and no-growth.





Despite being forcefully challenged, neoliberalism has proven remarkably resilient. In the first years since the crisis erupted, the bulk of the alternative literature pointed to continued growth in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and in other big emerging market countries to affirm the necessary role for the state in sustaining capitalist development. New developmental economists have consequently reasserted themselves. Their proposals converged into a broader demand for global Keynesianism (Patomäki, 2012) – a demand that is proving to be less and less realistic in the face of a deepening global economic crisis.

[ckaihatsu]

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Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 1123
May 28, 2015

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[tuwix]

Do you guys know any good books on neoliberalism? Where it's come from, how it works, where it's going, etc?

In terms how mass media work in neoliberalism, the "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" by Chomsky and Herman is very good.

[mushroompizza]

Basically every Ayn Rand book.