How radical free-market ideas achieved mainstream dominance in postwar
America and Britain Based on archival research and interviews with
leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces
the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to
supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel
Stedman Jones argues that there was nothing inevitable about the
victory of free-market politics. Far from being the story of the
simple triumph of right-wing ideas, the neoliberal breakthrough was
contingent on the economic crises of the 1970s and the acceptance of
the need for new policies by the political left. This edition includes
a new foreword in which the author addresses the relationship between
intellectual history and the history of politics and policy.
Fascinating, important, and timely, this is a book for anyone who
wants to understand the history behind the Anglo-American love affair
with the free market, as well as the origins of the current economic
crisis.
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9781400851836
Publisert
2014
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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