Abby Innes

Late Soviet Britain

Why Materialist Utopias Fail

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Produktbeschreibung

"Abby Innes argues that the Soviet revolution and British neoliberalism failed for many of the same theoretical and practical reasons. She shows how Britain championed radical economic liberalisation only to weaken and ultimately break its own governing institutions"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781009373623
• ISBN-10: 1009373625
• Artikelnr.: 68272571

Autorenporträt

Abby Innes is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Gods that failed
Part I. The Materialist Utopias: 1. Rationality and closed-system reasoning
2. General equilibrium and the balanced plan
3. On bureaucracy
4. On 'organised forgetting' in the governing science
Part II. Britain's Neoliberal Revolution: 5. The new public management, or Enterprise planning in capitalist form
6. Quasi-markets in welfare, or The non-withering state
7. Tax competition, or The return of regulatory bargaining
8. Efficient markets and climate change, or Soviet cybernetics 2.0
Part III. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal 'Movement Regime': 9. Neoliberalism: the Brezhnev years
10. A politics for the end of time.

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Introduction: the Gods that failed; Part I. The Materialist Utopias: 1. Rationality and closed-system reasoning; 2. General equilibrium and the balanced plan; 3. On bureaucracy; 4. On 'organised forgetting' in the governing science; Part II. Britain's Neoliberal Revolution: 5. The new public management, or Enterprise planning in capitalist form; 6. Quasi-markets in welfare, or The non-withering state; 7. Tax competition, or The return of regulatory bargaining; 8. Efficient markets and climate change, or Soviet cybernetics 2.0; Part III. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal 'Movement Regime': 9. Neoliberalism: the Brezhnev years; 10. A politics for the end of time.

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'Abby Innes is one of the most original and provocative analysts of politics in Britain. Her inventive, erudite explorations of both right and left and the many pathologies that make them mimic each other explain so many of the problems which beset the country today.' Rory Stewart, Director of Give Directly, former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-presenter of the podcast The Rest is Politics