Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism

COLIN CROUCH is Professor of Governance and Public Management at Warwick Business School, Fellow of the British Academy, and expert consultant to the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD. His previous publications include Post-Democracy.

• Acknowledgements viPreface viiAbout this Book xi1 The Previous Career of Neoliberalism 12 The Market and Its Limitations 243 The Corporate Takeover of the Market 494 Private Firms and Public Business 715 Privatized Keynesianism: Debt in Place of Discipline 976 From Corporate Political Entanglement to Corporate Social Responsibility 1257 Values and Civil Society 1448 What's Left of What's Right? 162References 181Further Reading 184Index 187

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