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The Neo-liberal State (Paperback)
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The Neo-liberal State (Paperback)
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The aim of the book is two-fold. First of all it is to provide a
fair, complete and analytical account of the Neo-liberal conception
of the role and function of the state in modern society. The second
aim is to provide a critical assessment of some of the central
elements of this conception. The book will look at the emphasis of
Neo-liberals on procedural and rule governed approaches to the role
of the state rather than outcome or end state views of the role of
government and to consider how this conception of politics relates
to issues such as the rule of law, freedom, justice, rights, the
relationship to the market economy, to civil society and to look at
the role of government in relation to the provision of welfare and
public sector services more generally. It builds up the Neo-liberal
case in respect of these aspects of modern society by drawing upon
the works of central Neo-liberal thinkers such as Hayek, Mises,
Menger, as well as thinkers such as Oakeshott, Nozick and Rotbard
who are not directly Neo-liberals but whose works have been
important for the development of central Neo-liberal themes. The
second part of the book provides what might be regarded as an
immanent critique of the Neo-liberal case built up in the first
part of the study. It takes Neo-liberal ideas very seriously and
shows how incoherences arise within and between those ideas such
that a plausible form of Neo-liberalism as opposed to
Libertarianism on the one hand and Social Democracy on the other is
very difficult to state. The theme of this book is very germane
given the considerable debate which is now taking place in the
context of the world financial crisis about the appropriate role
for the state.
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