E-raamat: Rethinking Economic Liberalization: A Progressive Approach to Reform

Jonah Levys well-researched and superbly written Rethinking Economic Liberalization re-examines the merits of Third Way policy and politics round the turn of the millennium. At the time, Third-Way protagonists wrongly thought to eclipse Left and Right. Notwithstanding this naivety, progressive governments in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK, made way for reform successes to inspire policymakers today wishing to overcome senseless polarization, tackle global challenges, and build a new era of opportunity, justice and prosperity. -- Anton Hemerijck, European University Institute, Italy Rethinking Economic Liberalization provides a profoundly important contribution to the debate on the contemporary political economy. Contra dominant narratives that liberalization amounts only to a single neo-liberal agenda, Levy shows that left parties have both the space and incentives to engage in different types of liberalization. Combining an historical engagement with the ideas of liberalization and in depth analysis of left-driven reform, the book provides a new way of thinking about the contemporary left project and the scope for progressive politics in the contemporary era. -- Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford, UK