Contestants, Profiteers, and the Political Dynamics of Marketization: How Shareholders Gained Control Rights in Britain, Germany, and France

by Helen Callaghan

Since the early 1980s, governments worldwide have taken a wide range of policy measures to strengthen and expand market-based competition. So far, the financial crisis that erupted in 2008 has not led to a significant policy reversal. Recent political events may well reflect widespread disenchantment with the consequences of neoliberal policies, but it remains to be seen whether the political leaders who rode to power by harnessing the discontent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198815026
• ISBN13: 9780198815020
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"