Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A World Turned Right-Way Up - Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko
Part I: The Rise of Neoliberalism
2. How Neoliberalism Got Where It Is: Elite Planning, Corporate Lobbying and the Release of the Free Market - David Miller
3. Making Neoliberal Order in the United States - Kean Birch and Adam Tickell
4. Neoliberalism, Intellectual Property and the Global Knowledge Economy - David Tyfield
5. Neoliberalism and the Calculable World: The Rise of Carbon Trading - Larry Lohmann
6. Tightening the Web: The World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform - Elisa van Waeyenberge
7. The Corruption Industry and Transition: Neoliberalising Post-Soviet Space? - Adam Swain, Vlad Mykhnenko and Shaun French
8. Remaking the Welfare State: From Safety Net to Trampoline - Julie MacLeavy

Part II: The Fall of Neoliberalism
9. Zombieconomics: The Living Death of the Dismal Science - Ben Fine
10. From Hegemony to Crisis? The Continuing Ecological Dominance of Neo-Liberalism - Bob Jessop
11. Do It Yourself: A Politics for Changing Our World - Paul Chatterton
12. Dreaming the Real: A Politics of Ethical Spectacles - Paul Routledge
13. Transnational Companies and Transnational Civil Society - Leonith Hinojosa and Anthony Bebbington
14. Defeating Neo-liberalism: A Marxist Internationalist Perspective and Programme - Jean Shaoul
15. Conclusion: The End of an Economic Order? - Vlad Mykhnenko and Kean Birch

Promotional Information

Presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response to it from around the world. This book exposes the often fractured and multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which may have to be challenged to bring about meaningful social change.

About the Author

Kean Birch is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde. Previously he was a research fellow in the Centre for Public Policy for Regions at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests concern the social and geographical basis of different economies and especially the implications that new knowledge, science and technologies have for these economies. He teaches courses on globalisation, neoliberalism and knowledge-based economies. Vlad Mykhnenko is a research fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Nottingham. Previously he was a research fellow in the Centre for Public Policy for Regions at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews

A timely volume on the nature, varied manifestations, and above all limitations of a an economic order that is failing so spectacularly with the financial crisis. Highly recommended for academics, students, or for that matter anyone interested in the politics of our times.
*Magnus Ryner, Oxford Brookes University.*

This book provides useful intellectual tools for deciphering the ideological, social and institutional foundations of neoliberalism and its wide-ranging implications for the still ongoing regulatory reorganization of capitalism.
*Neil Brenner, New York University*

This is an outstanding book not only because of the sophisticated critiques offered by some of the most highly regarded thinkers on the topic of the destruction and misery wrought through neoliberal capitalism, but also because its forward looking emphasis on a more egalitarian and hopeful future offers insights about the work that needs to be done by activists and scholars alike.
*Nik Heynen, University of Georgia*

This timely and wide ranging book traces the changing contours of neoliberalism, demonstrating how market-oriented policies gave rise to a globally hegemonic political-economic project. The emphasis is on identifying the different forms neoliberalism takes and the diverse responses to it.
*Wendy Larner, University of Bristol*