Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980
by Andrew Glyn
2021-07-20 22:38:08
Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980
by Andrew Glyn
2021-07-20 22:38:08
Never has the Left held power in so many advanced economies, yet never has the difference that this makes to economic policy been so hard to specify. Across a range of European countries and in Australia governments of the Left have struggled to char...
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Never has the Left held power in so many advanced economies, yet never has the difference that this makes to economic policy been so hard to specify. Across a range of European countries and in Australia governments of the Left have struggled to chart a distinctive course in the face of theneoliberal backlash against state intervention, the welfare state, and guaranteed full employment. This volume is the first to examine the records of these governments in securing high employment and a more equal distribution of income in the face of slow growth and global pressures to reduceinflation. Detailed studies of governments from Mitterrand to Blair and from Keating to Papandreou by leading writers from the countries are complemented by surveys of experience of the welfare state and of the ideological and historical background to these governments'' attempts to further theobjectives of social democracy.
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