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- Title: How on Earth Did it Come To This? Britain and the Coronavirus Crisis
- Author : P.E. Kerr
- Release Date : January 14, 2020
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 250 KB
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This book is an analysis of how free market neoliberal ideology became entrenched with the British system of political economy resulting in Britain's institutional and systemic capability to cope with national crises, but particularly the Covid 19 pandemic, fragmented, disorganised, and deeply compromised. I identify the ‘how’ it has come to ‘this’ as a fundamental consequence of the free market neoliberal ideology that has held the dominant position in all public policy in Britain since 1979 and the policy decisions that have emerged as a consequence.I explain what the ‘this’ is and then explain the ‘how’ through an examination of the ideological and methodological process by which Margaret Thatcher entrenched free market economics into the British system of political economy, predicated on the notion that there is no such thing as society. I argue that in doing this, she based Britain’s economic and social systems on a series of false hypotheses that have had tragic and profound consequences, the 'how' it has come to 'this'. In my analysis I examine and refute the basic assumptions that dominate modern political economy, such as the free market concepts of the individual, freedom, deregulation and privatisation, and the idea that Adam Smith has any responsibility through his writings for the concepts of free markets as they are understood in modern economic textbooks and academia. I examine the contribution of Milton Friedman to the notion that the economy can be regarded as an autonomous sphere of human activity and the influence that notion has had, and discuss how economic and social policy can differ widely under the influence of different versions of market behaviour. I also discuss the effect of free market neoliberalism on British politics.
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