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The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism. Cambridge & Malden: Polity Press. xii + 199 pp., isbn 978-0745652214, £15.99/€21,60 (pb)Colin Crouch is known for coining the phrase ‘post-democracy’. A specialist on labour unions and industrial relations, his more recent writings have concentrated on describing the place of corporations in the world economy, and how big business and big corporations increasingly dominate the world economy more than markets do. Only civil society, those institutions of society concerned less with politics and economics than with values, can press the case that values matter.Thus he believes neoliberalism treats markets as a substitute for civil society, as well as a substitute for government. He also discounts, though he doesn’t strongly address, the neoliberal belief that governments cause inflation, but oligopolistic markets don’t. He believes that markets are only one mechanism for social decision-making and not really efficient without a large number of competing suppliers, accurate understanding of their products, and no serious externalities such as environmental degradation. Though he admits government provision of service can be inefficient also, what he criticises is the neoliberal belief that money is always the best motivator of human action, better than relying on professional competence, and better than pride
Comparative Sociology – Brill
Published: Jul 29, 2016
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