{"product_id":"what-was-neoliberalism-studies-in-the-most-recent-phase-of-capitalism-1973-2008-9781642599152","title":"What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson's brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhile it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions, or as an era of capitalist development with its own logic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question, Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism, and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally, it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. \u003cem\u003eWhat Was Neoliberalism\u003c\/em\u003e? holds fast to Davidson's conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeil Davidson\u003c\/strong\u003e (1957-2020) lectured in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Glasgow. He authored \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of Scottish Nationhood\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDiscovering the Scottish Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize, \u003cem\u003eHow Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? \u003c\/em\u003e(2012), \u003cem\u003eHolding Fast to an Image of the Past\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) and \u003cem\u003eWe Cannot Escape History\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). Davidson was on the editorial boards of \u003cem\u003ers21\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eScottish Left Project\u003c\/em\u003e website, and was a member of the Radical Independence Campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525886906642,"sku":"9781642599152","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_22b3dca4-d0b6-41d1-a848-5243465e8b96.jpg?v=1731246972","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-was-neoliberalism-studies-in-the-most-recent-phase-of-capitalism-1973-2008-9781642599152","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}