Markets in the name of socialism : the left-wing origins of neoliberalism / / Johanna Bockman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456970503321
• Autore: Bockman Johanna <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-8047-7896-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 354 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.51
• Soggetti: Neoliberalism - History; Neoclassical school of economics - History; Marxian economics - History; Socialism - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Interviewees -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Economists and Socialism -- 1. Neoclassical Economics and Socialism: From the Beginnings to 1953 -- 2. A New Transnational Discussion among Economists in the 1950's -- 3. Neoclassical Economics and Yugoslav Socialism -- 4. Goulash Communism and Neoclassical Economics in Hungary -- 5. The International Left, the International Right, and the Study of Socialism in Italy -- 6. Market Socialism or Capitalism? The Transnational Critique of Neoclassical Economics and the Transitions of 1989 -- 7. Post-1989: How Transnational Socialism Became Neoliberalism without Ceasing to Exist -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, this book reveals a dialogue among many economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These discussions led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism. The book takes a truly transnational look at economists' professional ideas over 100 years across the capitalist West and the socialist East.