Progressive Politics after the Crash Governing from the Left |
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| Editor:
| Cramme, Olaf
Diamond, Patrick
McTernan, Michael |
| Series title: | Policy Network Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78076-763-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | I. B. Tauris |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $240.00AUD $218.18 |
Book Description:
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Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of states and the inability of elected governments to humanise and control global market capitalism. So, in the aftermath of the 2008 crash prompted by the failure of US financial services...
More DescriptionThose who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of states and the inability of elected governments to humanise and control global market capitalism. So, in the aftermath of the 2008 crash prompted by the failure of US financial services conglomerate, Lehman Brothers, this book addresses a deceptively simple question: what is to be done? It makes the case for a new, post-crisis settlement harnessing the dynamic traditions of social liberalism and social democracy as the foundation for progressive reforms geared towards alleviating crisis aftershocks and addressing the deep-seated structural challenges afflicting western capitalist democracies.