New Reckoning

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories
cannot cope. But the dynamic driving the current global
transformation is not as new as our pundits and politicians
pretend. The global market-place of our day may have little in
common with the tamed welfare capitalism of the post-war period but
it is uncannily reminiscent of the untamed capitalism of 100 years
ago. Keynes and Beveridge may be dead, but Marx, Malthus and
Ricardo have had a new lease of life.

In these timely essays, David Marquand challenges the
fashionable amnesia of the 1990s and addresses the crucial
questions raised by the capitalist renaissance which has followed
the collapse of Communism and the end of the cold war. In this
bewildering new world, which is at the same time an
all-too-familiar old world, how can the values of social solidarity
and democratic citizenship be realized? Granted that socialism is
no longer with us, does it have anything to say from beyond the
grave?

How is socialism's great antagonist, liberalism, faring in this
new world, and what are the prospects of an accommodation between
the two? Where does the new medievalism of contemporary Europe fit
in? How do the special peculiarities of the British state, the
identity it embodies and the political economy over which it
presides relate to those wider issues? What room for maneuver do
they give the British left? These questions make up the agenda for
The New Reckoning.

Autorentext
David Marquand is Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford and Honorary Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield.

Zusammenfassung
We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope. But the dynamic driving the current global transformation is not as new as our pundits and politicians pretend. The global market-place of our day may have little in common with the tamed welfare capitalism of the post-war period but it is uncannily reminiscent of the untamed capitalism of 100 years ago. Keynes and Beveridge may be dead, but Marx, Malthus and Ricardo have had a new lease of life.

In these timely essays, David Marquand challenges the fashionable amnesia of the 1990s and addresses the crucial questions raised by the capitalist renaissance which has followed the collapse of Communism and the end of the cold war. In this bewildering new world, which is at the same time an all-too-familiar old world, how can the values of social solidarity and democratic citizenship be realized? Granted that socialism is no longer with us, does it have anything to say from beyond the grave?

How is socialism's great antagonist, liberalism, faring in this new world, and what are the prospects of an accommodation between the two? Where does the new medievalism of contemporary Europe fit in? How do the special peculiarities of the British state, the identity it embodies and the political economy over which it presides relate to those wider issues? What room for maneuver do they give the British left? These questions make up the agenda for The New Reckoning.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements.

1. Journey to an Unknown Destination.

Part I: Capitalism, Socialism and Citizenship:.

2. Reinventing Civic Republicanism.

3. After Socialism.

4. Liberalism's Revenge? Resolving the Progressive Dilemma.

Part II: Europe:.

5. The Politics of Monetary Union.

6. The New Medievalism.

7. Reinventing Federalism.

Part III: Britain:.

8. History Derailed?.

9. The Enterprise Culture: Old Wine in New Bottles?.

10. Henry Dubb versus Sceptred Awe.

11. Collaborative Capitalism and Constitutional Reform.

12. Travels of an Ancien Régime.

Notes.

Index.