Civic capitalism
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Civic capitalism
Polity, 2015
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-141) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism, Colin Hay and Anthony Payne build on their influential analysis of the crisis of the Anglo-liberal growth model to set out a coherent account of the steps required to build an alternative that is more sustainable socially, economically and environmentally.
They argue that it is time to move on from the Anglo-liberal model of capitalism whose failings were so cruelly exposed by the crisis. They outline a new model that will work better in advanced capitalist societies, showing how this might be acheived in Britain today. They call this civic capitalism the governance of the market, by the state, in the name of the people, to deliver collective public goods, equity and social justice. This reverses the long ascendant logic of Anglo-liberalism in which citizens have been made to answer to the perceived logics of the capitalism they have been made to serve.
The crisis shows us that we can no longer be driven by the perceived imperatives of the old model and by those who have claimed for far too long and, as it turns out, falsely to be able to discern for us the imperatives of the market. It is now time to ask what capitalism can do for us and not what we can do for capitalism.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii Preface ix
Part I: Civilizing Capitalism 1
Civic Capitalism 3
Colin Hay and Anthony Payne
Part II: Engaging Civic Capitalism 53
The Omission of Real Democracy 55
Fred Block
The Next Steps 62
Colin Crouch
In Search of an Alternative 70
Andrew Gamble
'If I Were You, I Wouldn't Start From Here' 76
Ian Gough
Putting the 'Civic' More into the Mix 84
Gavin Kelly with Conor D'Arcy
Why Not Frighten the Horses? 90
Ruth Levitas
It's the Democratic Politics, Stupid! 97
Mick Moran
Recasting Neoliberal Mindsets 104
Ann Pettifor
What Has to be Civilized? 109
Matthew Watson
Part III: Building Civic Capitalism 117
Towards Civic Capitalism in Britain 119
Colin Hay and Anthony Payne
References 134
Index 142
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