As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism, Colin Hay and Anthony Payne build on their influential analysis of the crisis of the Anglo-liberal growth model to set out a coherent account of the steps required to build an alternative that is more sustainable socially, economically and environmentally.
They argue that it is time to move on from the Anglo-liberal model of capitalism whose failings were so cruelly exposed by the crisis. They outline a new model that will work better in advanced capitalist societies, showing how this might be acheived in Britain today. They call this civic capitalism the governance of the market, by the state, in the name of the people, to deliver collective public goods, equity and social justice. This reverses the long ascendant logic of Anglo-liberalism in which citizens have been made to answer to the perceived logics of the capitalism they have been made to serve.
The crisis shows us that we can no longer be driven by the perceived imperatives of the old model and by those who have claimed for far too long and, as it turns out, falsely to be able to discern for us the imperatives of the market. It is now time to ask what capitalism can do for us and not what we can do for capitalism.
Inhoudsopgave
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Part I: Civilizing Capitalism 1
Civic Capitalism 3
Colin Hay and Anthony Payne
Part II: Engaging Civic Capitalism 53
The Omission of Real Democracy 55
Fred Block
The Next Steps 62
Colin Crouch
In Search of an Alternative 70
Andrew Gamble
‘If I Were You, I Wouldn’t Start From Here’ 76
Ian Gough
Putting the ‘Civic’ More into the Mix 84
Gavin Kelly with Conor D’Arcy
Why Not Frighten the Horses? 90
Ruth Levitas
It’s the Democratic Politics, Stupid! 97
Mick Moran
Recasting Neoliberal Mindsets 104
Ann Pettifor
What Has to be Civilized? 109
Matthew Watson
Part III: Building Civic Capitalism 117
Towards Civic Capitalism in Britain 119
Colin Hay and Anthony Payne
References 134
Index 142
Over de auteur
Colin Hay is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris, and Affiliate Professor of Political Analysis and Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of many books including The Failure of Anglo-Liberal Capitalism, The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism (with David Wincott) and Why We Hate Politics.
Anthony Payne is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of SPERI at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of a number of books including The Global Politics of Unequal Development and Development (with Nicola Phillips).
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