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Europe since 1989 : a history
Record details
- ISBN: 9780691167374 (Cloth)
- ISBN: 0691167370 (Cloth)
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Physical Description:
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xi, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. - Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-417) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Where the east meets the west : crisis and reform debates in the 1980s -- The revolutions of 1989-91 -- Getting on the neoliberal bandwagon -- Second-wave neoliberalism -- Capital cities compared -- The Great Recession: 2008-9 and its consequences -- Southern Europe : the new east? -- Cotransformation : the case of Germany -- The roads not taken. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Neoliberalism -- Europe Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945- Europe -- History -- 1989- |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Community College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Broadway Library | HC 240 T44 2016 (Text) | 33109010241529 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Book News : Book News Reviews
Ther, a professor of Central European history at the University of Vienna, adds to the growing historiography on neoliberalism, which so far has concentrated on its intellectual roots and breakthrough up to the 80s. He examines how neoliberalism was implemented in Europe in the first wave after 1989, and in the second wave which began in the late 1990s, and ended with the disaster of 2008-9 (the Eastern European bubble which burst then had some commonalities with the American real estate bubble). He uses neoliberalism as a neutral, analytical term with which to distinguish between its intellectual history, its implementation and its social and political consequences. Ther cites the main pillars of this ideology and its grave side effects as blind belief in the market as an adjudicator in almost all human affairs, irrational reliance on the rationality of market participants, disdain for the state as expressed in the myth of âbig government,â and the uniform application of the economic recipes of the Washington Consensus, which was also passed in 1989 and shows its global dimension of. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2017 March
The year of the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) is a most fitting starting point for a review of the nearly 30-year history of postcommunist Europe. Ther (Univ. of Vienna) begins his narrative with an extended argument that neoliberal reformsâderegulation, privatization, liberalizationâhave proved to be a socioeconomic disaster for Eastern Europe to an even greater degree than for Western Europe. Ther's history covers familiar ground, but he includes a great deal of personal observation, particularly in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Ukraine. This may have made the book more interesting, but also suggests a degree of subjectivity that is reflected in the emphasis on the social costs of neoliberal reforms without a similarly extensive consideration of the economic gains that may have been achieved. This is a history not only of "Europe" but of the movement in the adoption of neoliberal reform as advocated by the Chicago School and Margaret Thatcher's Britain, through the arguments over "shock therapy" reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia, to the latest turn away from neoliberalism. The book has a useful bibliography and is well documented. It can be recommended to general readers and students of postcommunist history in Europe. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through faculty.
--R. P. Peters, Univ. of Massachusetts / Harvard Univ. Davis Center.
Rita P. Peters
Univ. of Massachusetts / Harvard Univ. Davis Center.
Rita P. Peters Choice Reviews 54:07 March 2017 Copyright 2017 American Library Association.
