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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Bockman, Johanna, 1968- Markets in the name of socialism. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011, ©2011 (DLC) 2010045298 (OCoLC)673419524 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Johanna Bockman |
ISBN: | 9780804778961 0804778965 |
OCLC Number: | 747038014 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction : economists and socialism -- Neoclassical economics and socialism : from the beginnings to 1953 -- A new transnational discussion among economists in the 1950s -- Neoclassical economics and Yugoslav socialism -- Goulash communism and neoclassical economics in Hungary -- The international left, the international right, and the study of socialism in Italy -- Market socialism or capitalism? : the transnational critique of neoclassical economics and the transitions of 1989 -- Post-1989 : how transnational socialism became neoliberalism without ceasing to exist. |
Responsibility: | Johanna Bockman. |
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"This is a daring and well-researched book of breathtaking scope. The author has delved into no less than 100 years of transnational economic discussions that span several continents and politico-economic systems in at least 4-5 languages, drawing on published sources, primary archival materials, and on numerous interviews conducted over a 14 year period. The book presents a bold, counter-intuitive, and original thesis that is destined to attract a lot of attention. Neo-liberalism, it argues, is not simply the enemy, inverse, and grave-digger of socialism; in fact, it is a parasite that originated in the debate with, about, and within socialism." -- Gil Eyal * Columbia University, and author of <I>The Origins of Post-Communist Elites: From the Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia</I> * "In this tour de force, Johanna Bockman studies the history of economics to extricate neoclassical theory and market institutions from their identification with capitalism, and in so doing opens up the future to the possibility of all sorts of market socialisms. A must-read." -- Michael Burawoy, University of California * Berkeley * "Johanna Bockman's book, Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism, describes the origins of neoliberalism from a unique perspective that has hardly been explored so far, namely, the contribution of Eastern European economists to the articulation and implementation of neoclassical economic theories . . . The book provides an important sociological perspective on the intellectual developments in Eastern Europe during the Communist era . . . [T]he book is a major contribution to our understanding of the translation of neoclassical economics both to socialism and to neoliberalism, and as such is a particularly important addition to the field." -- Nitsan Chorev * <i>Contemporary Sociology</i> * "[H]er research offers an important historical complement to recent attempt to revisit the conventional wisdom about neoclassical methodology, socialist politics, and market economics." -- Tim Barker * <i>Dissent</i> * "Johanna Bockman's book, Markets in the Name of Socialism, seeks to chip away at [the] conventional wisdoms [about neoliberalism, the postsocialist transitions, and the economics profession, which calcified after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989]. To do so, she takes her readers on a historically and geographically ambitious worldwide tour of the history of economic thought . . . This elegantly written book reveals a compelling vision in which markets are not, as in the orthodox Marxist view, a Trojan horse for the social hierarchies of capitalism, but a variety of human interaction compatible with many different social systems." -- Sarah Babb * <i>American Journal of Sociology</i> * "This book makes a brilliant argument that is of great interest to anybody who wonders about the political impact of economic theory-in the nature of different forms of socialism, in the interpretation of the East European transformation since 1989, and in the future fundamentals of policy." -- Dietrich Rueschemeyer * Brown University and author of <I>Usable Theory: Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research</I> * "Sociologist Johanna Bockman's much-awaited book is undoubtedly an instant classic. Her argument about the left-wing origins of neoliberalism goes against the grain of most theories about neoliberal globalization and postsocialist transformations in Europe. As such, it is a must-read for scholars studying these processes in whatever region of the world. . . With its clear prose, this is relational and transnational history at its best, and this work will undoubtedly shape scholarship for decades to come." -- Zsuzsa Gille * <i>Slavic Review</i> * "Johanna Bockman's Markets in the Name of Socialism offers a refreshing take on a fairly well-trodden question: the relationship between economics and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century . . . One of its central strengths is its historically and internationally grounded delineation of the boundary between neoclassicism and neoliberalism . . . Bockman offers a useful corrective to unipolar notions of economic knowledge as developing mainly in the West while Eastern European and Soviet economics, subordinated to Marxist ideology, stagnated . . . Bockman's work is an important step toward thinking outside of neoliberalism's self-presentation by undermining the problematic dichotomies upon which its has ben built-socialism versus capitalism, states versus markets . . . Markets in the Name of Socialism remains an important work that is necessary reading for anyone interested in neoliberalism, economics and the intersection between the two." -- Stephanie Lee Mudge * <i>Social Forces</i> * "Markets in the Name of Socialism shows that there are important lacunae in the study of neoliberalism as a world-scale ideology. . . A richly detailed and well-argued book that should interest PEWS scholars as it opens up new areas of research in neoliberalism as a 'structure of knowledge' within the world-system. In all, Bockman's book offers both an important insight into the history and workings of neoliberalism and a spur to further research." -- Robert MacPherson * <i>Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) News</i> * Read more...


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