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This book is about the first twenty years of post-communist
transformation in the Donbas (Ukraine) and Upper Silesia (Poland),
the two largest industrial regions of Eastern Europe. It exposes a
dramatic increase in inequality and poverty, persistently high
levels of unemployment and of criminal and self-destructive
behaviour, which have all characterised Upper Silesia's transition
to capitalism. This study also shows how the Donbas population has
suffered from a steep decline in living conditions and a sharp
deterioration of healthcare and human development standards. Based
on original primary data, this book stresses the detrimental impact
on regional restructuring of the inherited structural liabilities
and exogenous shocks emanating from the collapse of state
socialism. The study's main argument, however, is that what
determines the eventual outcome of transformation is not so much
the legacy of the communist (or even pre-communist) past or the
extent of neoliberalisation, but the success which a society has in
moulding its major institutions - both inherited from state
socialism and those copied from modern capitalism - in a
complementary, reciprocally sustaining manner.
The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the
faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening
debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do
not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic. In particular, the core
contradiction at the heart of neoliberalism -- that states are
necessary for the functioning of free markets -- provides us with
the opportunity to think again about how we want to organise our
economies and societies. "The Rise and Fall of Neloberalism"
presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions
the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response
to it from around the world. In bringing together the work of
distinguished scholars and dedicated activists to question
neoliberal hegemony, the book exposes the often fractured and
multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which will have to be
challenged to bring about meaningful social change.
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