UID:
almafu_9961239225302883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 397 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781009373654
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100937365X
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9781009373609
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1009373609
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9781009373647
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1009373641
Content:
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? This book demonstrates that a major part of the answer lies in the transformation of its state. It shows how Britain championed radical economic liberalisation only to weaken and ultimately break its own governing institutions. The crisis of democracy in rich countries has brought forward many urgent analyses of neoliberal capitalism. This book explores for the first time how the 'governing science' in Leninist and neoliberal revolutions fails for many of the same reasons. These systems may have been utterly opposed in their political values, but Abby Innes argues that when we grasp the kinship in their closed-system forms of economic reasoning and their strategies for government, we may better understand the causes of state failure in what remains an inescapably open-system reality.
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Gods That Failed -- Critical Realism -- Logical Reasoning from Assumption versus the Scientific Method -- Research Strategy -- Part I The Materialist Utopias -- 1 Rationality and Closed-System Reasoning -- The Neoclassical Path -- The Soviet Path -- Conclusion -- 2 General Equilibrium and the Balanced Plan -- Neoclassical Equilibrium -- The Soviet Search for Balanced Development -- How Do You Turn Utopian Dogma into a Procedure? -- Stalemate -- Conclusion -- 3 On Bureaucracy -- Public Choice and the Theory of State Failure -- The Bureaucracy as the 'Real' Seat of Power -- Lenin on 'the Withering Away of the State' -- The Austrian Road -- The Weberian Alternative -- 4 On 'Organised Forgetting' in the Governing Science -- Political Economic Crisis and Paradigm Shift -- Why We Hate Politics -- Conclusion -- Part II Britain's Neoliberal Revolution -- 5 The New Public Management, or Enterprise Planning in Capitalist Form -- Outsourcing -- The Analytical Sins of Omission -- Complexity and Incomplete Contracts -- The Reinvention of Soviet Enterprise Planning by Other Means -- Privatisation -- Agencification -- Conclusion -- 6 Quasi-markets in Welfare, or the Non-withering State -- The Logic of Reform and Its Unanticipated Risks -- The Wishing Away of the State -- The State and Incomplete Contracts Revisited -- Secondary Education in the United Kingdom -- Educational Standards -- Costs -- Regulatory Instability -- The Policymaking Environment -- Conclusion -- 7 Tax Competition, or the Return of Regulatory Bargaining -- Models, Maths and Dubious Metaphors -- Financialisation -- Tax Havens -- The Unanticipated Risks of Competition and Their Consequences -- Tax Competition in the United Kingdom.
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Has Tax Competition Produced Higher Investment? -- Who Paid for Corporate Tax Competition? -- Regulatory Competition, Tax Avoidance and HMRC -- Conclusion -- 8 Efficient Markets and Climate Change, or Soviet Cybernetics 2.0 -- Calculable Risk -- The Global Financial Crisis -- Perfect Indirect Centralisation Revisited… -- Risk Management -- Summary -- The Politics of Climate Change in the United Kingdom -- The Privileged Domain -- Public Finance -- Forecasting, Carbon Budgets and the Rise of Procedural Formalism -- Risk Assessment -- Market-Making and Competitiveness -- Regulation -- Taxes and Levies -- Government Spending -- Conclusion -- Part III The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal 'Movement Regime' -- 9 Neoliberalism: The Brezhnev Years -- The End of Embedded Liberalism -- Brexit: Nationalist in Form, Libertarian in Content -- The Conservative Party versus Reality -- Corruption -- Conclusion -- 10 A Politics for the End of Time -- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting -- The Ratchet Effect of Failure -- Conclusion -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009373630
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1009373633
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009373623
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1009373625
Language:
English
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