Silent Conversion to Anti-Statism: Historical Origins of the Belief in Market Superiority

Arbeitspapier | Working paper

"Despite severe economic turmoil within the last decade the stock diagnosis for most market insufficiencies has been: the state must be 'slimmed down'. Satisfying social needs through the free market under the slogan of 'less government is good government' has been a constitutive feature of economic policy since the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s. But even as the deregulation of the markets and the 'downsizing' of the state causes growing social turbulences – especially in the context of the current financial and economic meltdown – politicians, scholars and the media still cling to the idea of an omnipotent market. Deeprooted and widely-spread anti-statism still fulfils the role of a creed serving to legitimize the necessity of market-centred 'reforms'." (author´s abstract)

Object Details

• ISSN: 1868-4947
• Extent: Seite(n): 20
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: ZÖSS Discussion Paper (28)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Wirtschaft ; Volkswirtschaftslehre ; Marktmacht ; Marktwirtschaft ; Liberalismus ; Neoliberalismus ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Deregulierung ; Entstaatlichung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Engartner, Tim
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Universität Hamburg, Fak. Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, FB Sozialökonomie, Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien (ZÖSS)
• (where): Deutschland, Hamburg
• (when): 2012

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-391546
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST