Reclaiming the Nation State: A Progressive Strategy for a Post-Neoliberal World

Introduction

Part One: The Great Transformation Redux: From Keynesianism To Neoliberalism – And Beyond

1. Broken Paradise: A Critical Assessment of the Keynesian ‘Full Employment’ Era

2. Destined to Fail: Understanding the Crisis of Keynesianism and the Rise of Neoliberalism

3. That Option No Longer Exists: How Britain – and the British Labour Party – Fell into the Monetarist Trap (late 1960s-late 1970s)

4. The Paris Consensus: the French Left and the Creation of Neoliberal Europe (1981-1995)

5. The State Never Went Away: Neoliberalism as a State-driven Project

6. Après elle, le déluge: Are we Entering a Post-neoliberal Age?

Part Two: A Progressive Strategy For The 21st Century

7. Towards a Progressive Vision of Sovereignty

8. A Currency-issuing Government is Not Like a Household: an Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory

9. I Have a Job For You: Why a Job Guarantee is Better Than a Basic Income

10. We Have a (Central) Plan: the Case for Re-nationalisation

Conclusions

Notes

Index

William Mitchell is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of various books including Eurozone Dystopia (Elgar, 2015) and Reclaiming the State (Pluto, 2017). He is considered one of the world's leading heterodox economists and his ideas have been adopted by the Labour Party.

Thomas Fazi is a writer, journalist, translator and researcher. His articles have appeared in numerous publications. He is the author of The Battle for Europe (Pluto, 2014) and Reclaiming the State (Pluto, 2017), co-authored with William Mitchell.