Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World

A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction: Make the Left Great Again......Page 8
PART I The Great Transformation Redux: From Keynesianism to Neoliberalism – and Beyond......Page 22
1 Broken Paradise: A Critical Assessment of the Keynesian ‘Full Employment’ Era......Page 24
2 Destined to Fail: Understanding the Crisis of Keynesianism and the Rise of Neoliberalism......Page 43
3 That Option No Longer Exists: How Britain, and the British Labour Party, Fell Into the Monetarist Trap......Page 67
4 The Paris Consensus: The French Left and the Creation of Neoliberal Europe......Page 83
5 The State Never Went Away: Neoliberalism as a State-Driven Project......Page 100
6. Après Elle, Le Déluge: Are We Entering a Post-Neoliberal Age?......Page 157
PART II A Progressive Strategy for the Twenty-First Century......Page 166
7 Towards a Progressive Vision of Sovereignty......Page 168
8 A Government is Not Like a Household: An Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory......Page 179
9 I Have a Job For You: Why a Job Guarantee is Better than a Basic Income......Page 228
10 We Have a (Central) Plan: The Case of Renationalisation......Page 255
Conclusion: Back to the State......Page 270
Notes......Page 276
Index......Page 299