Masters of the Universe - Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics

Zusatztext "[A] terrific book." Informationen zum Autor Daniel Stedman Jones is a barrister in London. He was educated at the University of Oxford and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a PhD in history. He has worked as a policy adviser for the New Opportunities Fund and as a researcher for Demos. Klappentext Masters of the Universe describes neoliberalism's road to power, beginning in interwar Europe but shifting its center of gravity after 1945 to the United States, especially to Chicago and Virginia, where it acquired a simple clarity that was developed into an uncompromising political message. Neoliberalism was communicated through a transatlantic network of think tanks, businessmen, politicians, and journalists that was held together by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. After the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971, and the "stagflation" that followed, their ideas finally began to take hold as Keynesianism appeared to self-destruct. Later, after the elections of Reagan and Thatcher, a guileless faith in free markets came to dominate politics. Zusammenfassung Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, this title traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since.

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• Authors: Daniel Stedman Jones, Daniel Stedman Jones, Stedman Jones Daniel
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2012
• EAN: 9780691151571
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15157-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, European History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies