Depoliticisation, the Management of Money and the Renewal of Social Democracy: New Labour's Keynesianism and the Political Economy of 'Discretionary Constraint'

New Political Economy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 138-154

  Strange, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

depoliticisation, neoliberalism; Keynesianism; management of money; mode of regulation; New Labour; regime of accumulation; social democracy

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; DEMOCRACY; KEYNESIAN THEORY; LABOR MARKET; MARXISM; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EID: 84893408635     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2013.779648     Document Type: Article

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