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Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin (editors)
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24 looks at New Labour's moves towards creating a market state in Britain.
In a new and path-breaking analysis, Stuart Hall describes what he calls
New Labour's double-shuffle - a move whereby it pursues a dual strategy
of on the one hand keeping traditional constituencies on line through
a certain level of redistribution and community rhetoric, whilst on the
other it pursues its dominant agenda of proceeding to a market state via
the royal road of the new 'social democratic' version of neoliberalism.
Alan Finlayson analyses how public choice theory helps to import the market
into the public sphere, while Jonathan Rutherford looks at the specific
case of education and the PFI, documenting the concerted effort to create
market infrastructures in an area formerly seen as part of the public
sphere. Richard Minns shows how the diversion of social pension funds
into private financial institutions is yet another area in which the market,
backed by successive governments, is making inroads into collective welfare
provision. Other articles include an interview with Renzio Imbeni; George
Irvin on the Euro; Adaj Kay on Gaza City; Nora Räthzel on identity and
marginalised young people; Michael Saward on the legacy of John Rawls;
Nora Carlin on Christopher Hill; and Michael Rustin on Edward Thompson
and William Cobbett.
New Labour's double-shuffle
Stuart Hall
Public choice theory: enemy of democracy
Alan Finlayson
PFI: The only show in town
Jonathan Rutherford
Pensions of mass destruction
Richard Minns
Social democracy in Britain and Europe
Interview with Renzio Imbeni
Britain and the Euro
George Irvin
Youth groups and the politics of time and space
Nora Rathzel
Five Poems
Lorna Dowell, Alice beer, Martha Kapos, Patrick
Early, Patrick Hobbs
Veil of influence: the legacy of John Rawls
Michael Saward
Christopher Hill: an appreciation
Nora Carlin
The making of political identity: Edward Thompson and
William Cobbett
Michael Rustin
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