About the Editors -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- INTRODUCTION A World Turned Right Way Up -- The Ideological and Historical Origins of Neoliberalism -- Waves (and Waves) of Neoliberalism -- Varieties of Neoliberalization: Poor Results and Divergent Trajectories -- Financialization and the New Neoliberal Order -- Conclusion: Collapse of the Global Neoliberal Economic Order? -- References -- PART ONE THE RISE OF NEOLIBERALISM -- 1 How Neoliberalism Got Where It Is: Elite Planning, Corporate Lobbying and the Release of the Free Market -- Putting the Architecture in Place -- Elite Planning and the Rise of Thatcherism in Britain -- Global Elite Planning -- Conclusion: the Battle of Ideas -- References -- 2 Making Neoliberal Order in the United States -- The Politics of Neoliberalism: the Rise of the Conservative Movement -- Making the Neoliberal-Conservative Order -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Neoliberalism, Intellectual Property and the Global Knowledge Economy -- Neoliberalism and the Primitive Accumulation of Knowledge Production -- What is TRIPs? Effects and Significance -- The US Life Sciences Patent Coalition -- Conclusion: Post-TRIPs Developments and the Current Crisis -- Notes -- References -- 4 Neoliberalism and the Calculable World: the Rise of Carbon Trading -- What is Carbon Trading? -- Box 4.1 Carbon Market Construction in Brief -- Disembedding and Re-embedding: a Second Stage -- Finance and Securitization -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform -- From Structural Adjustment to Performance-Based Aid -- Inside Performance-Based Aid (PBA) -- Box 5.1: CPIA Criteria -- Beyond the Washington Consensus in World Bank Aid Policies? -- Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

6 The Corruption Industry and Transition: Neoliberalizing Post-Soviet Space? -- Neoliberalism in Crisis: Elephant in the Room or Apparition? -- The Post-Soviet 'Corruption Industry' -- Figure 6.1. Academic journal publications on the topics of corruption, rent seeking and neoliberalism -- Figure 6.2. Academic journal publications on the topic of corruptionin post-communist transition states -- Table 6.1. Corruption and corruption-related indexes and benchmarks of post-Soviet countries -- Figure 6.3. Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, 2008 -- Conclusion: Neoliberalism and Corruption -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 Remaking the Welfare State: from Safety Net to Trampoline -- The Decline of the Post-War Welfare State -- Neoliberalism and the Workfare State: Key Features -- Repositioning Workfare -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- PART TWO THE FALL OF NEOLIBERALISM -- 8 Zombieconomics: the Living Death of the Dismal Science -- From Marginalist to Formalist Revolution -- From Formalist to Keynesian Revolution -- From Keynesian Revolution to Monetarist Counter-Revolution -- From Monetarist Counter-Revolution to Zombieconomics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 From Hegemony to Crisis? The Continuing Ecological Dominance of Neoliberalism -- A Typology of Efforts at Neoliberalization -- Neoliberalism and Economic Determination -- Table 9.1. Factors relevant to ecological dominance in the relations among societal systems -- How Neoliberal Globalization Favoured Capital's Ecological Dominance -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- 10 Do It Yourself: a Politics for Changing our World -- The (Re)birth of a New Kind of Politics -- DIY politics -- Detours in DIY Politics: Autonomous Social Centres in the UK -- Seven Principles for a Politics to Change our World -- Conclusion: from the Ashes of the Crash -- Notes.

References -- 11 Dreaming the Real: a Politics of Ethical Spectacles -- Introduction: Manufacturing Dissent -- Sites of Intervention: Cultural Activism -- Dreaming the Real -- The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army -- Figure 11.1: CIRCA help out with security at Faslane nuclear submarine base, Scotland, July 2005 -- Figure 11.2: CIRCA at the Make Poverty History: Shut Down the G8 Demonstration, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005 -- Conclusion: Ethical Spectacles and Full Spectrum Resistance -- Notes -- References -- 12 Transnational Companies and Transnational Civil Society -- Neoliberal Policies and Mining as a State Financial Strategy -- Neoliberal Mining Expansion, Social Conflict and Civil Society Organizations -- Mining and Socio-environmental Conflicts in the Andes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 13 Defeating Neoliberalism: a Marxist Internationalist Perspective and Programme -- Neoliberalism: a Response to Developments within the Economic System -- Financialization: the New Mode of Capital Accumulation -- The Financial and Economic Crisis of Neoliberalism -- Defeating Global Capitalism: Challenges and Lessons -- The Way Forward -- References -- CONCLUSION The End of an Economic Order? -- The Beginning of the End for Neoliberal Ideology. . . -- . . . and Western Hegemony -- Picking through Neoliberal Wreckage: towards a New 'Old Morals Capitalism'? -- References -- Index.