Watch the PBS Documentary The Commanding Heights, Episode One: The Battle of Ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUas6s9oP8 What assumptions does it contain about the nature of the economy and the forces driving political and economic change? How useful are these assumptions for an understanding of the nature of, and forces driving, neoliberalism? In your answer you should make reference to some of the different scholarly interpretations of neoliberalism. You can examine the book upon which the documentary is based (Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2002), and to read critical reviews of the book and the documentary, such as Mark Berger, Up from neoliberalism: free market mythologies and the coming crisis of global capitalism, Third World Quarterly 20(2), 1999, pp. 453-463. Reflect critically upon the different scholarly interpretations of the nature of neoliberalism, and the forces responsible for it. Readings: Alfredo Saad-Filho, Crisis in Neoliberalism or Crisis of Neoliberalism? in Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber (eds), The Crisis This Time: Socialist Register 2011, Merlin Press, Pontypool, 2010, pp. 242-259. Robert Manne, Is Neo-Liberalism Finished? in Robert Manne and David McKnight (eds), Goodbye to All That? On the Failure of Neo-Liberalism and the Urgency of Change, Black Inc Agenda, Melbourne, 2010, pp. 11-38. Damien Cahill, The End of Laissez-Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2014, Chapter 8. Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner, Neoliberalism Interrupted in Damien Cahill, Lindy Edwards and Frank Stilwell (eds), Neoliberalism: Beyond the Free Market, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2012, pp. 15-30. Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy, The crisis of neoliberalism as a stepwise process: from the Great Contraction to the crisis of sovereign debts in Damien Cahill, Lindy Edwards and Frank Stilwell (eds), Neoliberalism: Beyond the Free Market, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2012, pp. 31-53. John King, The future of neoliberalism in Damien Cahill, Lindy Edwards and Frank Stilwell (eds), Neoliberalism: Beyond the Free Market, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2012, pp. 251-266. Heikki Patomaki, Neoliberalism and the Global Financial Crisis, New Political Science 31(4), 2009, pp. 431-442. Vlad Mykhenko and Kean Birch, The End of an Economic Order? in Kean Birch and Vlad Mychenko (eds), The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order?, Zed Books, London, 2010, pp. 255-268. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, Capitalist Crises and the Crisis This Time in Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber (eds), The Crisis This Time: Socialist Register 2011, Merlin Press, Pontypool, 2010, pp. 1-20. Greg Albo and Bryan Evans, From Rescue Strategies to Exist Strategies: The Struggle Over Public Sector Austerity in Leo Pantich, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber (eds), The Crisis This Time: Socialist Register 2011, Merlin Press, Pontypool, 2010, pp. 283-308. Robert Wade, Financial Regime Change?, New Left Review 53, September-October 2008, pp. 5-21. Special Issue of Development Dialogue 51, January 2009 on Postneoliberalism, available at: https://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2009_51_postneoliberalism/Development_Dialogue_51.pdf Colin Crouch, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011 Damien Cahill, Beyond neoliberalism? Crisis and the prospects for progressive alternatives, New Political Science 33 (4), 2011, pp. 479-492. Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, Verso, New York, 2013 Matthew Ryan, Contesting Actually Existing Neoliberalism, Journal of Australian Political Economy, 76, 2015/16, pp. 79-102. Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings, Neoliberalism, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2017. Chapter 6: Crisis and Resilience, pp. 130-147.
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