yergin and stanislaw, the commanding heights
(14, 124): "underlying all this has been a fundamental shift in ideas"
(15): "importance of leaders and leadership"
(20): Atlee was a social worker
(21, 26-27): insofar as they have a concept of crisis, it's "war"/devastation [the politics of that crisis, w/ the Left in ascendancy, etc., is all obscured.]
(29): "nationalization as a capitalist weapon" [there is a great deal of truth to this--nationalization can be a great boon for capitalists]
(34): the 'chicken feed' argument!
(51): FDR and the New Deal [no mention of Labor/Left role, strife, uncertainty, etc.]
(64): more regulation under Nixon [and Dem Congress, of course] than under any president since New Deal [is it coincidental that this post-dated second significant wave of struggle? yet no mention of this.]
(74): 'Permit Raj,' but of course
(81, 91): no acknowledgment of the successes of ISI [this framing permits 'idealism'--because then it really is the failing of ideas, and the superiority of alternative ideas, that explains historical change. interests/power be damned! must look at centrality of profits and class power, rather than the question of whether one or the other policy is 'better' for society]
(87, 91): corruption, also, is un-explained
(93): Keith Joseph as catalyst
(96): Edward Heath was UK's Richard Nixon--an unfortunate Keynesian
(107): in 1974, Thatcher and Joseph break with Heath and the Tory mainstream
(108): the first three years were a 'non-event'--only after Falklands
(113): confrontation with NUM and Scarrgill, in 1984
(115): State companies were inefficient, found it difficult to compete--in this, of course, there's always an element of truth. [on the other hand, we're confronted with the track record of neoliberalism]
(123): in total, only 46 privatizations
(124, 140, 145): again, "beliefs" as driving change [there are always all sorts of ideas around. the question is why certain ideas get selected for]
(139): getting literature on E. Asian miracle backwards--consensus is different
(142): LSE in the 1930s became redoubt of liberalism
Harvey, Neoliberalism
(19): centrally--it's a political project, not a utopian project
(31-33): difficulties w/ class--resolved by pointing to finance
Williams, Keynes
(74): Keynes actually didn't write much about social policy/welfare
(76): engaged welfare State through obsession w/ unemployment
(14, 124): "underlying all this has been a fundamental shift in ideas"
(15): "importance of leaders and leadership"
(20): Atlee was a social worker
(21, 26-27): insofar as they have a concept of crisis, it's "war"/devastation [the politics of that crisis, w/ the Left in ascendancy, etc., is all obscured.]
(29): "nationalization as a capitalist weapon" [there is a great deal of truth to this--nationalization can be a great boon for capitalists]
(34): the 'chicken feed' argument!
(51): FDR and the New Deal [no mention of Labor/Left role, strife, uncertainty, etc.]
(64): more regulation under Nixon [and Dem Congress, of course] than under any president since New Deal [is it coincidental that this post-dated second significant wave of struggle? yet no mention of this.]
(74): 'Permit Raj,' but of course
(81, 91): no acknowledgment of the successes of ISI [this framing permits 'idealism'--because then it really is the failing of ideas, and the superiority of alternative ideas, that explains historical change. interests/power be damned! must look at centrality of profits and class power, rather than the question of whether one or the other policy is 'better' for society]
(87, 91): corruption, also, is un-explained
(93): Keith Joseph as catalyst
(96): Edward Heath was UK's Richard Nixon--an unfortunate Keynesian
(107): in 1974, Thatcher and Joseph break with Heath and the Tory mainstream
(108): the first three years were a 'non-event'--only after Falklands
(113): confrontation with NUM and Scarrgill, in 1984
(115): State companies were inefficient, found it difficult to compete--in this, of course, there's always an element of truth. [on the other hand, we're confronted with the track record of neoliberalism]
(123): in total, only 46 privatizations
(124, 140, 145): again, "beliefs" as driving change [there are always all sorts of ideas around. the question is why certain ideas get selected for]
(139): getting literature on E. Asian miracle backwards--consensus is different
(142): LSE in the 1930s became redoubt of liberalism
Harvey, Neoliberalism
(19): centrally--it's a political project, not a utopian project
(31-33): difficulties w/ class--resolved by pointing to finance
Williams, Keynes
(74): Keynes actually didn't write much about social policy/welfare
(76): engaged welfare State through obsession w/ unemployment
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