The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism
The Collapse of an Economic Order?

Presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response to it from around the world. This book exposes the often fractured and multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which may have to be challenged to bring about meaningful social change.

The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic. In particular, the core contradiction at the heart of neoliberalism - that states are necessary for the functioning of free markets - provides us with the opportunity to think again about how we want to organise our economies and societies. "The Rise and Fall of Neloberalism" presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response to it from around the world. In bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated activists to question neoliberal hegemony, the book exposes the often fractured and multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which will have to be challenged to bring about meaningful social change.

1. Introduction: Turning the World Right-way Up - Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko Section 1: The Rise of Neoliberalism 2. How Neoliberalism Got Where It Is - David Miller 3. Making Global Rules - Adam Tickell and Kean Birch
4. Neoliberalism, Intellectual Property and the Global Knowledge Economy - David Tyfield
5. Neoliberalism and the Calculable World: The Rise of Carbon Trading by Larry Lohmann 6. Tightening the Web: The World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform - Elisa Van Waeyenberge 7. Neoliberalising post-Soviet Space? Corruption and Transition - Adam Swain, Vlad Mykhnenko and Shaun French
8. Remaking the Welfare State: From Safety Net to Trampoline - Julie MacLeavy
Section 2: The Fall of Neoliberalism 9. Zombieconomics: The Living Death of the Dismal Science - Ben Fine
10. What follows neo-liberalism? The deepening contradictions of US Domination and the Struggle for a New Global Order - Bob Jessop
11. Do It Yourself: A politics for changing our world - Paul Chatterton 12. Dreaming the Real: A Politics of Ethical Spectacles by Paul Routledge 13. Transnational Corporations and Transnational Civil Society - Leonith Hinojosa and Anthony Bebbington
14. Anti-neoliberalism or a new socialistic agenda in South America? - Kathya Cordova
15. Opposing neo-liberalism: A Marxist internationalist perspective - Jean Shaoul 16. Conclusion - Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko