Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World

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A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 7 Introduction: Make the Left Great Again......Page 8 PART I The Great Transformation Redux: From Keynesianism to Neoliberalism – and Beyond......Page 22 1 Broken Paradise: A Critical Assessment of the Keynesian ‘Full Employment’ Era......Page 24 2 Destined to Fail: Understanding the Crisis of Keynesianism and the Rise of Neoliberalism......Page 43 3 That Option No Longer Exists: How Britain, and the British Labour Party, Fell Into the Monetarist Trap......Page 67 4 The Paris Consensus: The French Left and the Creation of Neoliberal Europe......Page 83 5 The State Never Went Away: Neoliberalism as a State-Driven Project......Page 100 6. Après Elle, Le Déluge: Are We Entering a Post-Neoliberal Age?......Page 157 PART II A Progressive Strategy for the Twenty-First Century......Page 166 7 Towards a Progressive Vision of Sovereignty......Page 168 8 A Government is Not Like a Household: An Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory......Page 179 9 I Have a Job For You: Why a Job Guarantee is Better than a Basic Income......Page 228 10 We Have a (Central) Plan: The Case of Renationalisation......Page 255 Conclusion: Back to the State......Page 270 Notes......Page 276 Index......Page 299