The Rise of Neoliberalism in Advanced Capitalist Economies

Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative-Historical Perspective

“…The first approach attributes proglobalization and/or neoliberal policy changes to proactive lobbying and campaigning by business, especially big business ðCowles 1995; Van Apeldoorn 2000, 2002Dreiling 2001;Sklair 2002;Carroll 2004;Duménil and Lévy 2004;Robinson 2004;Harvey 2005;Howard and King 2008;Dreiling and Darves 2011;Murray and Scott 2012Þ. When a country's private sector presses for substantial proglobalization changes to the country's existing public policies, this perspective suggests that the desired policy changes should soon follow.…”

“…Studies of developed countries have frequently argued for the power and influence of business in neoliberal policy shifts ðe.g., Sklair 1995;Rupert 2000;Blyth 2002;Saad-Filho and Johnston 2005;Levitt 2006;Howard and King 2008;Dreiling and Darves 2011Þ. For example, there was substantial concerted action by business in support of European integration in the 1980s and 1990s ðCowles 1995; Van Apeldoorn 2002Þ.…”

Economic Crisis and Political Economy

“…Kalecki and Kowalik were in very good company. Almost no-one predicted the rise of neoliberalism (Howard and King, 2008). To take one particularly striking example, this is the final sentence of Michel Aglietta's A Theory of Capitalist Regulation , published in French in 1976 and in English three years later, in the year that Margaret Thatcher came to power in the United Kingdom: 'The coming massive socialisation of the conditions of life will destroy free enterprise as the pillar of liberal ideology' (Aglietta, 1979: p. 385).…”

“…Second, and also very familiar, were the powerful forces unleashed by globalisationespecially financial globalisation -and the consequent undermining of the power of the nation-state and the greatly increased power of footloose capital relative to internationally immobile labour. Third, and less immediately apparent, there were deeper underlying long-run changes in both the forces and the social relations of production that increased the power of the market (Howard and King, 2008).…”

The Rise, Decline, and Revitalization of the Marxist Tradition in Japanese Science and Technology Studies

“…Neoliberalism is a thought-collective, which originated in the organization of Montpelerin Society in 1947, or rather Lipmann Colloquium in 1938, reacting against "collectivism," and the neoliberal counter-revolution since the late 1970s typified by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan was a result of a complicated historical process consisting strategic activities by global neoliberalist network and the development of production force and relation of production which was fos-140 Y. Fujita tered by a number of technological innovation, and above all things, electronic computer (Harvey 2005;Howard and King 2008;Mirowski and Plehwe 2009;Plehwe, Walpen, and Neunhöffer 2006).…”