Monica Prasad's areas of interest are comparative historical sociology, economic sociology, and political sociology. She has published books and articles on the rise of neoliberalism, the development of tax systems, the effects of carbon taxes, and the persistence of poverty in America.
Her most recent book The Land of Too Much (co-winner of the American Sociological Association's award for the best book in sociology) develops a demand-side theory of comparative political economy to explain the surprisingly large role of the state in the U.S., its origins in the 19th century revolution in agricultural productivity, and its consequences for undermining a European-style welfare state and leaving U.S. economic growth dependent on "mortgage Keynesianism."
In 2015-2016 she will be a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation, working on a book about the origins of the 1981 "Laffer curve" tax cut.
The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—“neoliberalism”—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such prominence in these two countries and not in similarly industrialized Western countries such as France and Germany?
In The Politics of Free Markets, a comparative-historical analysis of the development of neoliberal policies in these four countries,Monica Prasad argues that neoliberalism was made possible in the United States and Britain not because the Left in these countries was too weak, but because it was in some respects too strong. At the time of the oil crisis in the 1970s, American and British tax policies were more punitive to business and the wealthy than the tax policies of France and West Germany; American and British industrial policies were more adversarial to business in key domains; and while the British welfare state was the most redistributive of the four, the French welfare state was the least redistributive. Prasad shows that these adversarial structures in the United States and Britain created opportunities for politicians to find and mobilize dissatisfaction with the status quo, while the more progrowth policies of France and West Germany prevented politicians of the Right from anchoring neoliberalism in electoral dissatisfaction.
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Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
評分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
評分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
評分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
評分Monica Prasad documented the emergence of Neoliberalism in four advanced capitalist states after the 1973 oil crisis. Prasad argued that socio-political structures, more than anything else, determined not only the strength but also the form of different sta...
圖書標籤: 經濟社會學 政治經濟學 比較政治經濟學 自由主義 比較政治 比較曆史社會學 政治學 社會學
作者用“新自由主義上颱反而是因為左翼太強”作為噱頭,一口氣比較瞭英美德法四大國的不同新自由主義(或新自由主義失敗)的異同之處。關於稅製問題可見/不可見到利用這種可見性迎閤選舉政治的討論,左派運動(工會/消費者運動)如何未曾預料地為新自由主義的私有化/反監管/齣售公共福利鋪上墊腳石,都耐人尋味。總而言之,作者反對把新自由主義看做預先設計好的宏大理念計劃,反之將其作為政治互動中的創新與取捨,必須引入製度分析纔能看得更為透徹。(對政治背景瞭解太少,讀起來時常為自己的知識儲備捉急啊)
評分個人覺得本書很大的問題是,開頭用“新自由主義産生是左派力量太強”這樣標題黨式的論斷作為噱頭,樹稻草人,作為學術策略固無不妥,但後文論述中這個論斷越來越站不住腳(左右界定不清,力量強弱缺乏標準),結果更像是在寫政治行動者在不同製度結構中的行動策略及其後果,雖然經驗材料很豐富,國傢間比較也很有說服力,但是結論的理論位點就很模糊,不知道跟什麼理論在對話。
評分個人覺得本書很大的問題是,開頭用“新自由主義産生是左派力量太強”這樣標題黨式的論斷作為噱頭,樹稻草人,作為學術策略固無不妥,但後文論述中這個論斷越來越站不住腳(左右界定不清,力量強弱缺乏標準),結果更像是在寫政治行動者在不同製度結構中的行動策略及其後果,雖然經驗材料很豐富,國傢間比較也很有說服力,但是結論的理論位點就很模糊,不知道跟什麼理論在對話。
評分個人覺得本書很大的問題是,開頭用“新自由主義産生是左派力量太強”這樣標題黨式的論斷作為噱頭,樹稻草人,作為學術策略固無不妥,但後文論述中這個論斷越來越站不住腳(左右界定不清,力量強弱缺乏標準),結果更像是在寫政治行動者在不同製度結構中的行動策略及其後果,雖然經驗材料很豐富,國傢間比較也很有說服力,但是結論的理論位點就很模糊,不知道跟什麼理論在對話。
評分經濟與市場主題的另一切入點。當斯特蘭奇告訴我們應該重視談判,重視不同的政治經濟結構時。普拉薩德告訴我們民意是怎樣被曆史所塑造,政客又是怎樣通過政治結構利用民意,推行有利於自己在位的新自由主義改革,當然是偶然而不徹底的。但長期來看,三十年河東過去瞭,三十年河西呢?民粹迴潮和黃馬甲之後呢?
The Politics of Free Markets 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載