Rethinking the ‘neoliberal thought collective’ thesis

Cahill, D; Humphrys, E

Rethinking the ‘neoliberal thought collective’ thesis

Cahill, D Humphrys, E

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Citation:: Globalizations, 2019, 16 (6), pp. 948 - 965
Issue Date:: 2019-09-19

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dc.contributor.author	Cahill, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Humphrys, E https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0192-0426	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-07-08T19:06:01Z
dc.date.issued	2019-09-19	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Globalizations, 2019, 16 (6), pp. 948 - 965	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1474-7731	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/136929
dc.description.abstract	© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Numerous scholars have identified the ‘neoliberal thought collective’ as the key driver of the neoliberal transformation. These accounts emphasize the building of neoliberal hegemony through the mobilization of this collective, and the New Right parties who aligned to these ideas. We argue that Australia's corporatist road to neoliberalism pushes against this thesis, as the movement found little sympathy among policy makers. Rather, the thought collective acted more like a ‘ginger group’, attempting to radicalize public debate and create space for new neoliberal arrangements. In Australia, successive centre-left Labor governments rolled out neoliberalism in a series of formal corporatist arrangements with the trade union movement. This paper sets out a reconsideration of the role of the thought collective, on the basis of the Australian experience, and argues this can move us beyond the ideational determinism that has come to characterize key accounts of how neoliberalism developed.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Globalizations	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/14747731.2018.1560182	en_US
dc.title	Rethinking the ‘neoliberal thought collective’ thesis	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Numerous scholars have identified the ‘neoliberal thought collective’ as the key driver of the neoliberal transformation. These accounts emphasize the building of neoliberal hegemony through the mobilization of this collective, and the New Right parties who aligned to these ideas. We argue that Australia's corporatist road to neoliberalism pushes against this thesis, as the movement found little sympathy among policy makers. Rather, the thought collective acted more like a ‘ginger group’, attempting to radicalize public debate and create space for new neoliberal arrangements. In Australia, successive centre-left Labor governments rolled out neoliberalism in a series of formal corporatist arrangements with the trade union movement. This paper sets out a reconsideration of the role of the thought collective, on the basis of the Australian experience, and argues this can move us beyond the ideational determinism that has come to characterize key accounts of how neoliberalism developed.

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