The rise and fall of neoliberalism : the collapse of an economic order?

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About the Editors; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; INTRODUCTION A World Turned Right Way Up; The Ideological and Historical Origins of Neoliberalism; Waves (and Waves) of Neoliberalism; Varieties of Neoliberalization: Poor Results and Divergent Trajectories; Financialization and the New Neoliberal Order; Conclusion: Collapse of the Global Neoliberal Economic Order?; References; PART ONE THE RISE OF NEOLIBERALISM; 1 How Neoliberalism Got Where It Is: Elite Planning, Corporate Lobbying and the Release of the Free Market; Putting the Architecture in Place

Elite Planning and the Rise of Thatcherism in BritainGlobal Elite Planning; Conclusion: the Battle of Ideas; References; 2 Making Neoliberal Order in the United States; The Politics of Neoliberalism: the Rise of the Conservative Movement; Making the Neoliberal-Conservative Order; Conclusion; References; 3 Neoliberalism, Intellectual Property and the Global Knowledge Economy; Neoliberalism and the Primitive Accumulation of Knowledge Production; What is TRIPs? Effects and Significance; The US Life Sciences Patent Coalition; Conclusion: Post-TRIPs Developments and the Current Crisis; Notes

References4 Neoliberalism and the Calculable World: the Rise of Carbon Trading; What is Carbon Trading?; Box 4.1 Carbon Market Construction in Brief; Disembedding and Re-embedding: a Second Stage; Finance and Securitization; Conclusion; References; 5 Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform; From Structural Adjustment to Performance-Based Aid; Inside Performance-Based Aid (PBA); Box 5.1: CPIA Criteria; Beyond the Washington Consensus in World Bank Aid Policies?; Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Knowledge; Conclusion; Notes; References

6 The Corruption Industry and Transition: Neoliberalizing Post-Soviet Space?Neoliberalism in Crisis: Elephant in the Room or Apparition?; The Post-Soviet 'Corruption Industry'; Figure 6.1. Academic journal publications on the topics of corruption, rent seeking and neoliberalism; Figure 6.2. Academic journal publications on the topic of corruptionin post-communist transition states; Table 6.1. Corruption and corruption-related indexes and benchmarks of post-Soviet countries; Figure 6.3. Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, 2008; Conclusion: Neoliberalism and Corruption

AcknowledgementsReferences; 7 Remaking the Welfare State: from Safety Net to Trampoline; The Decline of the Post-War Welfare State; Neoliberalism and the Workfare State: Key Features; Repositioning Workfare; Conclusion; Note; References; PART TWO THE FALL OF NEOLIBERALISM; 8 Zombieconomics: the Living Death of the Dismal Science; From Marginalist to Formalist Revolution; From Formalist to Keynesian Revolution; From Keynesian Revolution to Monetarist Counter-Revolution; From Monetarist Counter-Revolution to Zombieconomics; Conclusion; Notes; References

9 From Hegemony to Crisis? The Continuing Ecological Dominance of Neoliberalism

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