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发表于2024-12-26
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The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—“neoliberalism”—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such prominence in these two countries and not in similarly industrialized Western countries such as France and Germany?
In The Politics of Free Markets, a comparative-historical analysis of the development of neoliberal policies in these four countries,Monica Prasad argues that neoliberalism was made possible in the United States and Britain not because the Left in these countries was too weak, but because it was in some respects too strong. At the time of the oil crisis in the 1970s, American and British tax policies were more punitive to business and the wealthy than the tax policies of France and West Germany; American and British industrial policies were more adversarial to business in key domains; and while the British welfare state was the most redistributive of the four, the French welfare state was the least redistributive. Prasad shows that these adversarial structures in the United States and Britain created opportunities for politicians to find and mobilize dissatisfaction with the status quo, while the more progrowth policies of France and West Germany prevented politicians of the Right from anchoring neoliberalism in electoral dissatisfaction.
Monica Prasad's areas of interest are comparative historical sociology, economic sociology, and political sociology. She has published books and articles on the rise of neoliberalism, the development of tax systems, the effects of carbon taxes, and the persistence of poverty in America.
Her most recent book The Land of Too Much (co-winner of the American Sociological Association's award for the best book in sociology) develops a demand-side theory of comparative political economy to explain the surprisingly large role of the state in the U.S., its origins in the 19th century revolution in agricultural productivity, and its consequences for undermining a European-style welfare state and leaving U.S. economic growth dependent on "mortgage Keynesianism."
In 2015-2016 she will be a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation, working on a book about the origins of the 1981 "Laffer curve" tax cut.
An example of how contemporary-oriented research could be related to historically grounded question in social sciences.
评分作者从制度运行的角度去看新自由主义和政治行动(经济学家如何被政治家借用,大众如何坠入政治家口中的“新自由主义”,政治家预料外的影响因素如何推进现实),很有说服力。看历史社会学的书很容易有知识上的满足,但要多用些力才能有理论上的满足。
评分经济与市场主题的另一切入点。当斯特兰奇告诉我们应该重视谈判,重视不同的政治经济结构时。普拉萨德告诉我们民意是怎样被历史所塑造,政客又是怎样通过政治结构利用民意,推行有利于自己在位的新自由主义改革,当然是偶然而不彻底的。但长期来看,三十年河东过去了,三十年河西呢?民粹回潮和黄马甲之后呢?
评分作者用“新自由主义上台反而是因为左翼太强”作为噱头,一口气比较了英美德法四大国的不同新自由主义(或新自由主义失败)的异同之处。关于税制问题可见/不可见到利用这种可见性迎合选举政治的讨论,左派运动(工会/消费者运动)如何未曾预料地为新自由主义的私有化/反监管/出售公共福利铺上垫脚石,都耐人寻味。总而言之,作者反对把新自由主义看做预先设计好的宏大理念计划,反之将其作为政治互动中的创新与取舍,必须引入制度分析才能看得更为透彻。(对政治背景了解太少,读起来时常为自己的知识储备捉急啊)
评分作者从制度运行的角度去看新自由主义和政治行动(经济学家如何被政治家借用,大众如何坠入政治家口中的“新自由主义”,政治家预料外的影响因素如何推进现实),很有说服力。看历史社会学的书很容易有知识上的满足,但要多用些力才能有理论上的满足。
Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
评分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
评分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
评分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
评分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
The Politics of Free Markets pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024