Masters of the universe : Hayek, Friedman, and the birth of neoliberal politics

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Timeline; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Three Phases of Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and History; Transatlantic Neoliberal Politics; 1. The Postwar Settlement; 2. The 1940s: The Emergence of the Neoliberal Critique; Karl Popper and ""The Open Society""; Ludwig von Mises and ""Bureaucracy""; Friedrich Hayek and ""The Road to Serfdom""; The Mont Pelerin Society and ""The Intellectuals and Socialism""; 3. The Rising Tide: Neoliberal Ideas in the Postwar Period; The Two Chicago Schools: Henry Simons, Milton Friedman, and Neoliberalism

The Enlightenment, Adam Smith and NeoliberalismEconomic and Political Freedom: Milton Friedman and Cold War Neoliberalism; The German Economic Miracle: Neoliberalism and the Soziale Marktwirtschaft; Regulatory Capture, Public Choice, and Rational Choice Theory; 4. A Transatlantic Network: Think Tanks and the Ideological Entrepreneurs; The United States in the 1950s: Fusionism and the Cold War; British Conservatism in the 1950s; Neoliberal Organization in the 1950s and 1960s; The Second Wave: Free Market Think Tanks in the 1970s; Neoliberal Journalists and Politicians; Breakthrough?

5. Keynesianism and the Emergence of Monetarism, 1945-71Keynes and Keynesianism; ""A Little Local Difficulty"": Enoch Powell's Monetarism; American Economic Policy in the 1960s; Milton Friedman's Monetarism; The Gathering Storm; 6. Economic Strategy: The Neoliberal Breakthrough, 1971-84; The Slow Collapse of the Postwar Boom, 1964-71; Stagflation and Wage and Price Policies; The Heath Interregnum and the Neoliberal Alternative; The Left Turns to Monetarism, 1: Callaghan, Healey, and the IMF Crisis; The Left Turns to Monetarism, 2: Jimmy Carter and Paul Volcker's Federal Reserve

Thatcherite Economic StrategyReaganomics; Conclusion; 7. Neoliberalism Applied? The Transformation of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy in the United States and Britain, 1945-2000; Postwar Low-Income Housing and Urban Policy in the United States; Postwar Low-Income Housing and Urban Policy in Britain; Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Government; Property-Owning Democracy and Individual Freedom: Housing and Neoliberal Ideas; The Reagan Administration; Council House Privatization: The Right to Buy Scheme; Transatlantic Transmissions: Reagan's Enterprise Zones

Hope VI, Urban Regeneration, and the Third WayConclusion; Conclusion The Legacy of Transatlantic Neoliberalism: Faith-Based Policy; Parallelisms: The Place of Transatlantic Neoliberal Politics in History; The Apotheosis of Neoliberalism?; Reason-Based Policymaking; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

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