A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism

[gorski]

Heh. [Jeezzz...]

 

[Blagsta]

If you have any opinions on the thread subject Gorski, please post them.

 

[butchersapron]

Have you read any other Harvey Blagsta?

 

[gorski]

When I get the time and when I hand everything in, Blagsta. The dissertation must be handed in, apparently, on 8th September. Brrrrrrrrrr....

 

[Blagsta]

Have you read any other Harvey Blagsta?

I haven't. I watched the first online Marx lecture and some of the 2nd one though.

 

[butchersapron]

He's an excellent writer, can put across very complex stuff in an easy manner. You can feel his enthusiam from the text, he's not a young man but there's so much energy there. And, there's no bullshit.

 

[gorski]

I forgot: to hear the really dissenting voices, away from neo-lib/neo-con and Keynesian soc-dem perspective, where different development theories will be discussed while showing how they function on a concrete example!

Hart-Landsberg, Martin; Jeong, Seongjin & Westra, Richard. 2007. Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy. Ashgate.

Also, from a Soc Dem perspective:

Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. 1985. Politics against markets, The Social Democratic Road to Power. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

 

[DotCommunist]

I haven't. I watched the first online Marx lecture and some of the 2nd one though.

I listened to a youtube lecture by him around BHONL last night. Interestingly prescient that while describing pragmatic neoliberalism in 70's New York that followed a property crash, he wonders whether similar will happen in the near future.

 

[Fruitloop]

Capital is pragmatic and adaptive - recuperation, Chomsky's 'elite media' etc etc.

 

[gorski]

Interesting development: http://www.europeanvoice.com/articl...late-financial-services-criticised/61961.aspx

“The crisis has shown that self-regulation has not worked,” McCreevy said yesterday. “I am also convinced that excessive reliance on ratings in EU legislation might have discouraged banks and other financial institutions from exercising their own due diligence.”

The Commission is proposing two options for regulating the agencies.

The first option is to reinforce the co-ordinating role of the Paris-based Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) and to improve co-operation between national regulators.

The second option is to create an agency (either the CESR or a new agency) that would be responsible for the EU-wide registration of agencies and to use national regulators to supervise agencies’ operations.

We need to see which interests will prevail {some of the particularistic interests or perhaps the accent might end up on the general interest [of the whole], after all?!?}...

 

[DotCommunist]

Capital is pragmatic and adaptive - recuperation, Chomsky's 'elite media' etc etc.

yeah, but he was making a distinction between pure neoliberalism, and the pragmatic version that followed it's failure (state intervention on behalf of the lender etc)

 

[Blagsta]

Well I bought a copy in Foyles at lunchtime.

Not sure when I'm gonna get to read it though! I have several books waiting in my pile already.

 

[888]

Science tells us that neoliberalism has been constantly accelerating, ever since the big bang and mammals.

 

[gorski]

Indeed, as it's "natural", hence conceived at the very moment of the big mother of all bangs, cast into the very fibre of the Milky Way, and therefore inevitable, because it's all determined since nanosecond 1...

 

[snadge]

by David Harvey. Any good?

not at all, views society from the "wrong" vantage point.

 

[butchersapron]

What do you mean?

 

[Blagsta]

Yeah I'd like to know too

 

[Blagsta]

Started reading this the other day. Very very interesting and very readable. I was half expecting it to be a dry academic economic history book, but it's written in a nice easy style. I'm at the end of chapter 2 so far. His main thesis is that the neo-liberal reforms introduced in the 70's and the sweeping changes made by Thatcher and Reagan in the 80's were a form of class war by the rich and powerful acting togther, as a class, to grab and consolidate power and wealth.

 

[gorski]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWWMOzNNrQ&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=02eskyHJY_4&feature=related

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm shocked, Gorski, those are actually good links. (David Harvey interviews, for those scared to click).

 

[gorski]

Prejudices are a nasty debilitating condition to beat, yeah...

 

[danny la rouge]

My disability is no laughing matter.