Conservative Capitalism in Britain and the United States (RLE Social Theory): A Critical Appraisal: 15 (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Hardcover

Plant, Raymond; Hoover, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138783048 ISBN 13: 9781138783041

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The shock waves of conservative advances have reached into every corner of American and British politics. Parties of the right have prospered, while parties of the left have stumbled, retreated, and are now regrouping. The agenda for both right and left is set by the terms of the free-market doctrines that have displaced the post-war consensus politics of liberal capitalism.

This volume describes and challenges the ideological basis of the free-market right. Though critiques of the policies of the Reagan and Thatcher governments are hardly in short supply, this major new study offers the most thorough and up-to-date analysis available. No other book considers in such depth conservative ideas and policies on both sides of the Atlantic. It provides the first clear account of the distinction between conservative and other forms of capitalism. It also examines the fault lines dividing opposing camps within conservative capitalism and their consequences for domestic policy in Britain and the US. Linking political theory and public policy, it is one of the few critical appraisals of the New Right based on a clear understanding of what the arguments for the free market really are.

Finally, the authors demonstrate what the left needs to learn from its failures, how to remould its understanding of the relationship between politics and the market, and how to recapture the lost initiative.

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About the Author:

NICHOLAS ABERCROMBIE, University of Lancaster

ALAN WARDE, University of Manchester

ROSEMARY DEEM, University of Lancaster

SUE PENNA, University of Lancaster

KEITH SOOTHILL, University of Lancaster

ANDREW SAYER, University of Lancaster

JOHN URRY, University of Lancaster

SYLVIA WALBY, University of Leeds

His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1138783048
• ISBN 13: 9781138783041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 362