My Christmas book recommendation, after the Courageous State, of course, is Colin Crouch's 'The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism'.
There are overlaps with the Courageous State, of course.
He points out, I think rightly, that Keynesianism has not yet revived because it was associated with the interests of a declining working class.
The message is simple therefore: until the middle see that neoliberalism shafts them, their hopes, their children's futures and their businesses we're in trouble.
The book is highly readable.
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Richard,
until the middle see that neoliberalism shafts them, their hopes, their children’s futures and their businesses we’re in trouble
Any insight as to how this shafting occurs? Is this along the lines of Naomi Klein’s routine that everybody, except for the select few all-knowing/all-caring types, are too “stupid” to make well-informed decisions as to their economic lives?
Or is the shafting based upon some other fantasy…..
Georges
Read the Courageous State
You assume all people are all knowing
They’re not
They elect people to guess for them
That’s the role of the state you ignore
And it is precisely because people cannot and more importantly do not want to make all those choices – choices that utterly incapacitate them or anyone if we all had to make them