Table of Contents

Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan

1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945
Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa

2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and the British welfare state after 1945
George Peden

3. Ordoliberalism, the Social Market Economy, and Keynesianism: Germany after 1945
Harald Hagemann

4. Non-Liberal Capitalism and a Liberal Welfare Regime? Japanese economists and the welfare state before the 1980s
Tamotsu Nishizawa and Yukihiro Ikeda

Part II. Neoliberalism and the changing understanding of the welfare state

5. Neo-liberalism - from ideas to policy: some preliminary thoughts with particular reference to post-war Britain
Neil Rollings

6. New Labour and neoliberalism
Matt Beech

7. The Initiative for a New Social Market Economy and the transformation of the German welfare regime after unification? (1990)
Daniel Kinderman

8. Neo-liberalism and Market-Disciplining Policy in the Koizumi Reform in Japan
Juro Teranishi

Part III. Varieties of Neoliberalism: International Dimensions

9. National vs Supranational Collective Goods. The Birth and Death of Neoliberal Pluralism
Fabio Masini

10. Neoliberal Think Tanks and the Crisis
Dieter Plehwe

11. Concluding Remarks

About the Author

Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham.

Bradley W. Bateman is President of Randolph College.

Tamotsu Nishizawa is Professor of Economics at Teikyo University.

Dieter Plehwe is a Research Fellow at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung.

Reviews

"This volume sets a new benchmark with its very well-documented investigation into the nature of the interaction between the history of the welfare state and the history of liberalism in all its varieties. It is an original and scholarly account of national cases, deftly orchestrated by the editors to produce a coherent and well-focused picture."

-- Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Professor of Political Economy, University of Rome, La Sapienza
"Finally setting it straight that liberalism and the welfare state are not at odds with each other at all, but at the very foundations of Western socio-economic reconstruction since at least the 1930s. The editors provide fundamental reading for understanding the origins, history and undermining of the welfare state (and its stubborn resistance to wither away completely). They simultaneously show that many questions remain to be addressed in what is growing
into a new field as economic history, political history and intellectual history join forces. This book is a new elementary building block for this history."

-- Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Aarhus University
"This book untangles the contributions and criticisms of economists to the welfare state in Britain, Germany, and Japan over the last six decades. Those seeking a field guide to the historical divergences of liberalism and neoliberalism in the twentieth century need look no further. The authors deliver with detail and depth."

-- Quinn Slobodian, Department of History, Wellesley College