A new special issue of the journal Globalizations has just been published and brings together articles on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek that were initially presented, or otherwise have their origins, in an international conference ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’, held [...]
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This is a modified version of the talk I gave at the Sydney and Naples launches of my book, The End of Laissez-Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism.
The genesis of this book was my dissatisfaction with dominant accounts of the global financial crisis and its implications [...]
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Earlier this year Ed Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party, addressed a specially organised gathering of business leaders with the following words: “I would be a prime minister who champions the rights of the consumer and the rights of businesses to succeed and make profits in a [...]
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The seventieth anniversary of the publication of two seminal political economy texts arrived in 2014. In 1944 both Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom were published, delineating very different pathways to the utopian springs constituting and [...]
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The seventieth anniversary of the publication of two seminal political economy texts arrived in 2014. In 1944 both Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom were published, delineating very different pathways to the utopian springs constituting and [...]
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The seventieth anniversary of the publication of two seminal political economy texts arrived in 2014. In 1944 both Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom were published, delineating very different pathways to the utopian springs constituting and [...]
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Those on the Left often see the deregulatory ideologies of neoliberalism as a primary cause of the global economic crisis. Given this perceived failure, neoliberalism’s persistence can seem puzzling. But, as I argue in my new book The End of Laissez-Faire?: On the Durability of Embedded [...]
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In an interview with the New York Times, evolutionary theorist Daniel Dennett reflected on the notoriously uncompromising character of his critique of religion: ‘There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion’. A similar sentiment—if you’re going to [...]
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