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Explaining The Proliferation Of U.S. Billionaires During The Neoliberal Period, Rob Piper
Explaining The Proliferation Of U.S. Billionaires During The Neoliberal Period, Rob Piper
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This article explains the proliferation of U.S. billionaire wealth during the neoliberal period (1980 to the present). Using the work of scholars, investigative journalists, and government researchers, it examines descriptive evidence from the past forty years of the economic, social, and political trends associated with the capital accumulation that led to so much wealth being concentrated with so few individuals. It further creates a theoretical framework of institutional factors (or “drivers”) that help to understand how these trends link together to provide a comprehensive explanation for the increase of billionaires in comparison with other economic gauges like GDP, income distribution, …
The Governance Of Homelessness In Miami, Rebecca Lynn Young
The Governance Of Homelessness In Miami, Rebecca Lynn Young
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In 2019 the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported that 567,715 people experience homelessness in the United States on a single night (HUD 2019). This is the third year in a row that number has risen following a seven-year decline ending in 2016. Scholars have demonstrated that the causes of homelessness are primarily structural, including lack of affordable housing, living wage, and social safety net (Hopper et al 1985), issues which have been exacerbated since the expansion of neoliberalism in the late 1970s (Harvey 2005). While city strategies have varied from criminalization to medicalization (NCH and NLCHP 2006; …
Neoliberalism And Monopoly In The Motion Picture Industry, Michael S. Wartenbe
Neoliberalism And Monopoly In The Motion Picture Industry, Michael S. Wartenbe
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Monopolies and industry concentration have returned in our time, as did the ramifications in the globalized political economy. One of the most impactful in our daily lives are the Mass Media Conglomerates who not only own the majority of film, television, and news we access, but increasingly control the means of accessing it, from cable to digital. While many are familiar with these corporations via their services and products, less known by the public are their political operations and close cooperation with Washington. This is due to the lack of holistic analysis of the industry and cooperation in the media …
It's Capitalism, Stupid!: The Theoretical And Political Limitations Of The Concept Of Neoliberalism, Bryant William Sculos
It's Capitalism, Stupid!: The Theoretical And Political Limitations Of The Concept Of Neoliberalism, Bryant William Sculos
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This polemical essay explores the meaning and function of the concept of neoliberalism, focusing on the serious theoretical and political limitations of the concept. The crux of the argument is that, for those interested in overcoming the exploitative and oppressively destructive elements of global capitalism, opposing "neoliberalism" (even if best understood as a process or a spectrum of "neoliberalization" or simply privatization) is both insufficient and potentially self-undermining. This article also goes into some detail on the issues of health care and climate change in relation to "neoliberalism" (both conceptually and the material processes and policies that this term refers …
Corporations, Associations And The State: The International Subsidy System For Film, Michael S. Wartenbe
Corporations, Associations And The State: The International Subsidy System For Film, Michael S. Wartenbe
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Rather than increasing competition in the market and decreasing government spending, neoliberalism has driven states to compete by appealing to transnational corporations. Direct subsidization to attract investment has become one of the most egregious normalization of this process, and Hollywood and the film industry have become some of the most active participants to this system. Indeed to have a functioning film industry, government subsidies are essential, commonly paying out up to a third of the production costs. Per employee these are some of the highest subsidy rates of any industry, and with most of the world participating, they offer little …
Ending The Illusion: Interrogating Neoliberalism And Class Action, Jahdiel Murray
Ending The Illusion: Interrogating Neoliberalism And Class Action, Jahdiel Murray
Class, Race and Corporate Power
The neoliberal political economy is best framed and analyzed by identifying how it services the economic domination of the capitalist owners of production, the bourgeoisie. This work examines how the combination of expanded corporate power, the arrangements of national and international state apparatuses (roused by a reorientation of economic policy), and newly imposed limitations on collective action has helped to maintain the epoch of capitalism by stifling the development of a counter-hegemony that seeks emancipation. Within this analysis rests a critique. With the long-term effects of capitalist crises jeopardizing us once again, we have an opportunity to further the effort …
Corporate Profits And The Assault On Democracy: A Review Essay, Ronald W. Cox
Corporate Profits And The Assault On Democracy: A Review Essay, Ronald W. Cox
Class, Race and Corporate Power
A critical review discussing Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy by Jerry Harris (Clarity Press, 2016), The One Percent Solution by Gordon Lafer (Cornell University Press, 2017), Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean (Viking, 2017), The Long Depression by Michael Roberts (Haymarket Books, 2016), and Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity by William Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Response To Daniel Skidmore-Hess On The “Bankruptcy Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age”, Ronald W. Cox
Response To Daniel Skidmore-Hess On The “Bankruptcy Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age”, Ronald W. Cox
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Ronald W. Cox writes a response to Daniel Skidmore-Hess' reply to Cox's "The Bankruptcy of Social Democracy and Liberalism in the Neoliberal Age," which was originally published in CRCP Volume 3, Issue 1.
The “Bankruptcy” Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age: A Response To Ronald W. Cox, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
The “Bankruptcy” Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age: A Response To Ronald W. Cox, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Class, Race and Corporate Power
Daniel Skidmore-Hess writes a response to an earlier Perspectives article written by Ronald W. Cox titled "The Bankruptcy of Social Democracy and Liberalism in the Neoliberal Age," Volume 3, Issue 1. Cox then responds to Skidmore-Hess in a follow-up Perspectives article.
The Bankruptcy Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age, Ronald W. Cox
The Bankruptcy Of Liberalism And Social Democracy In The Neoliberal Age, Ronald W. Cox
Class, Race and Corporate Power
The increasing similarity between the economic policies of center-left and center-right political parties has effectively diminished the legitimacy of governments in relationship to their citizenry in Western Europe and the U.S. Capitalist democracies during the period of managed capitalism gained legitimacy by the appearance of the separation of capitalist ownership rights in the marketplace from the political institutions that govern capitalism. During this period, Social Democratic parties in Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Democratic Party in the U.S., paid some amount of attention to labor unions and mass constituents in formulating their policy agendas. The era of …
The Corporatization Of Higher Education, Ronald W. Cox
The Corporatization Of Higher Education, Ronald W. Cox
Class, Race and Corporate Power
This essay reviews recent books and articles that examine the politics and economics of the restructuring of public universities in the United States. The author weaves the arguments together to point to several prominent trends: increased corporatization of university governance and increased dependence on the market for resources previously provided by the state, reduction of full-time faculty in favor of instructors and adjuncts, dramatic growth of administrative personnel, and mounting student debt. The history of these developments is explored by examining the roots of the political attacks on the public university.
Globalizing Governmentality: Sites Of Neoliberal Assemblage In The Americas, Jason R. Weidner
Globalizing Governmentality: Sites Of Neoliberal Assemblage In The Americas, Jason R. Weidner
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation analyzes processes of globalization, through a critical examination of the dynamics of neoliberalism in the Americas. It employs and also develops a Foucauldian governmentality analytical framework, demonstrating how such a framework contributes to our understanding of world politics. This dissertation also develops the concept of a liberal political imaginary—consisting of the market, society, and the state—and utilizes this as an analytical framework for understanding the globalization of neoliberal forms of governance. The research suggests that discourses and practices of globalization, global civil society, and global governance represent a fundamental transformation in the way that contemporary social and political …