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Masters of the universe : Hayek, Friedman, and the birth of neoliberal politics / Daniel Stedman Jones.

By:

Jones, Daniel Stedman, 1978-

Contributor(s):

Jones, Daniel Stedman, 1978- [preface by the author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Updated edition with a New ForewordDescription: xi, 418 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9786613883896
9781400851836
1400851831
9781283571449
1283571447
9781400844739
1400844738
9780691161013

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: No title; No title; No title; No titleDDC classification:

320.51 23

LOC classification:

HB95 .J76m 2012

Available additional physical forms:

Issued also in print.

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Postwar Settlement -- 2. The 1940s: The Emergence of the Neoliberal Critique -- 3. The Rising Tide: Neoliberal Ideas in the Postwar Period -- 4. A Transatlantic Network: Think Tanks and the Ideological Entrepreneurs -- 5. Keynesianism and the Emergence of Monetarism, 1945-71 -- 6. Economic Strategy: The Neoliberal Breakthrough, 1971-84 -- 7. Neoliberalism Applied? The Transformation of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy in the United States and Britain, 1945-2000 -- Conclusion. The Legacy of Transatlantic Neoliberalism: Faith-Based Policy -- Notes -- Index

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso)	HB95 .J76m 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000198044

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.