Johanna Bockman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Bockman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bockman |
| SIGNATURE | BOCKMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rethinking Russia
In this special Symposium edition of our podcast series Beyond Neo-Liberalism, we dive into Anna Schwenck’s monograph, Flexible Authoritarianism, alongside a panel of leading scholars: Jeremy Morris, Greg Yudin, and Johanna K. Bockman. How do ambition, loyalty, status, and inequality take shape inside an authoritarian regime? Can neoliberal aspirations thrive under authoritarian rule? And how does everyday life—and innovation—unfold within a war-…
The origins of the concept “gentrification” within empire and decolonization
Art under Neoliberalism
Apart from the longstanding and much-debated problem of art's commodification, how does neoliberalism transform and determine the conditions of artistic practice? Further, if neoliberalism is a substantially distinct stage in the history of capitalism, and not merely its intensification, what are the implications of this new condition for the practice and criticism of contemporary art? What does it mean to practice and theorize art, to be an arti…
J anek W asserman . The Marginal Revolutionaries
In his new book The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas, Janek Wasserman examines the historical trajectory of the Austrian School of economics. The Austrian School is a group of economists originally from Vienna, which included, most famously, Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and is generally thought to have influenced, among others, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. According to Wasserman, we mu…
The Aesthetics of Gentrification
In 1988 a local homeowner in Washington, DC, commissioned a 30-foot mural of an artwork by modernist painter Piet Mondrian on the side of a public housing building, along with several other similar murals across the street. Three months later all the residents of the public housing development were moved out. Later, the buildings were destroyed. Here I explore how these murals enabled the residents' permanent displacement. Explaining this displac…
Science and Environment in Chile
The Struggle over Structural Adjustment
In 1980 the World Bank extended its first structural adjustment loans. Scholars and activists have argued that structural adjustment policies, and the neoclassical economics that legitimates them, destroyed Keynesianism, developmentalism, and socialism. In contrast to the view that structural adjustment began as a clear neoliberal project, I argue that the second and third worlds, in fact, demanded structural adjustment, which, in response, the W…
Democratic Socialism in Chile and Peru
In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government paid the economics department at the University of Chicago, known for its advocacy of free markets and monetarism, to train Chilean graduate students. These students became known as the 'Chicago Boys,' who implemented the first and most famous neoliberal experiment in Chile after 1973. Peruvian, Mexican, and other Latin American economics students followed a similar path and advocated a turn to neoliber…
Removing the public from public housing
In the United States, urban regimes have long brought together public and private actors to provide public services. Given this, how do public-private partnerships (PPPs) change public housing? To answer this question, I examine a public housing project: the Ellen Wilson Dwellings in Washington, DC. In 1993, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded one of the first federal HOPE VI grants to a PPP to demolish the Ellen Wilson D…
Socialist Accounting” by Karl Polanyi
Structural Adjustment
Structural adjustment policies and programs are economic reforms that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank require highly indebted countries to implement as a precondition for further loans. In 1980, in response to the emerging worldwide debt crisis, the World Bank extended its first structural adjustment loans, specifically to Bolivia, Kenya, Philippines, Senegal, and Turkey, which the International Monetary Fund supported through …
Engineering Revolution. The Paradox of Democracy Promotion in Serbia
Constructing Neoliberalism
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
The political projects of neoliberalism
The Long Road to 1989
This article examines three events that have reinforced misunderstandings about neoclassical economics, socialism, and neoliberalism: the socialist calculation debate, economic reforms in socialist Eastern Europe, and 1989. In contrast to assumptions that neoclassical economics is capitalist, this article reveals that, since the nineteenth century, neoclassical economists have used an abstract socialist state to develop their professional knowled…
Economists in Varieties of Capitalism (and Socialism)
Markets in the Name of Socialism
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, this book reveals a dialogue among many economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These discussions led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism. The book takes a truly transnational look…
David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission
October 01 2010 David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order Johanna Bockman Johanna Bockman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Johanna Bockman Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Journal of Cold War Studies (2010…
Scientific Community in a Divided World
During the Cold War, economists utilizing mathematical methods in both the Soviet Union and the United States found they shared a common research project. After the Stalinist years in which they could communicate very little, they found that they had much to learn from each other. Mathematical economics came to bridge the divide between East and West even though the meetings and collaborations between American and Soviet colleagues were fraught w…
The origins of neoliberalism between Soviet socialism and Western capitalism
Nils Gilman, Mandarins of the Future
Eastern Europe as a Laboratory for Economic Knowledge
Using Latour's concepts of “actor‐network ” and “translation,” the authors show that neoliberalism's success in Eastern Europe is best analyzed not as an institutional form diffused along the nodes of a network, but as itself an actor‐network based on a particular translation strategy that construes socialism as a laboratory of economic knowledge. They argue that socialism was made into a laboratory of economic knowledge during the socialist calc…
Eastern Europe as a Laboratory for Economic Knowledge
Using Latour's concepts of “actor‐network ” and “translation,” the authors show that neoliberalism's success in Eastern Europe is best analyzed not as an institutional form diffused along the nodes of a network, but as itself an actor‐network based on a particular translation strategy that construes socialism as a laboratory of economic knowledge. They argue that socialism was made into a laboratory of economic knowledge during the socialist calc…
Socialist Accounting” by Karl Polanyi
Markets in the Name of Socialism
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, this book reveals a dialogue among many economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These discussions led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism. The book takes a truly transnational look…
The origins of neoliberalism between Soviet socialism and Western capitalism
Science and Environment in Chile
Removing the public from public housing
In the United States, urban regimes have long brought together public and private actors to provide public services. Given this, how do public-private partnerships (PPPs) change public housing? To answer this question, I examine a public housing project: the Ellen Wilson Dwellings in Washington, DC. In 1993, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded one of the first federal HOPE VI grants to a PPP to demolish the Ellen Wilson D…
Democratic Socialism in Chile and Peru
In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government paid the economics department at the University of Chicago, known for its advocacy of free markets and monetarism, to train Chilean graduate students. These students became known as the 'Chicago Boys,' who implemented the first and most famous neoliberal experiment in Chile after 1973. Peruvian, Mexican, and other Latin American economics students followed a similar path and advocated a turn to neoliber…
Scientific Community in a Divided World
During the Cold War, economists utilizing mathematical methods in both the Soviet Union and the United States found they shared a common research project. After the Stalinist years in which they could communicate very little, they found that they had much to learn from each other. Mathematical economics came to bridge the divide between East and West even though the meetings and collaborations between American and Soviet colleagues were fraught w…
The Aesthetics of Gentrification
In 1988 a local homeowner in Washington, DC, commissioned a 30-foot mural of an artwork by modernist painter Piet Mondrian on the side of a public housing building, along with several other similar murals across the street. Three months later all the residents of the public housing development were moved out. Later, the buildings were destroyed. Here I explore how these murals enabled the residents' permanent displacement. Explaining this displac…
The Long Road to 1989
This article examines three events that have reinforced misunderstandings about neoclassical economics, socialism, and neoliberalism: the socialist calculation debate, economic reforms in socialist Eastern Europe, and 1989. In contrast to assumptions that neoclassical economics is capitalist, this article reveals that, since the nineteenth century, neoclassical economists have used an abstract socialist state to develop their professional knowled…
The Struggle over Structural Adjustment
In 1980 the World Bank extended its first structural adjustment loans. Scholars and activists have argued that structural adjustment policies, and the neoclassical economics that legitimates them, destroyed Keynesianism, developmentalism, and socialism. In contrast to the view that structural adjustment began as a clear neoliberal project, I argue that the second and third worlds, in fact, demanded structural adjustment, which, in response, the W…
Eastern Europe as a Laboratory for Economic Knowledge
Using Latour's concepts of “actor‐network ” and “translation,” the authors show that neoliberalism's success in Eastern Europe is best analyzed not as an institutional form diffused along the nodes of a network, but as itself an actor‐network based on a particular translation strategy that construes socialism as a laboratory of economic knowledge. They argue that socialism was made into a laboratory of economic knowledge during the socialist calc…
Nils Gilman, Mandarins of the Future
The origins of neoliberalism between Soviet socialism and Western capitalism
Scientific Community in a Divided World
During the Cold War, economists utilizing mathematical methods in both the Soviet Union and the United States found they shared a common research project. After the Stalinist years in which they could communicate very little, they found that they had much to learn from each other. Mathematical economics came to bridge the divide between East and West even though the meetings and collaborations between American and Soviet colleagues were fraught w…
David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission
October 01 2010 David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order Johanna Bockman Johanna Bockman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Johanna Bockman Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Journal of Cold War Studies (2010…
Markets in the Name of Socialism
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, this book reveals a dialogue among many economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These discussions led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism. The book takes a truly transnational look…
The political projects of neoliberalism
The Long Road to 1989
This article examines three events that have reinforced misunderstandings about neoclassical economics, socialism, and neoliberalism: the socialist calculation debate, economic reforms in socialist Eastern Europe, and 1989. In contrast to assumptions that neoclassical economics is capitalist, this article reveals that, since the nineteenth century, neoclassical economists have used an abstract socialist state to develop their professional knowled…
Economists in Varieties of Capitalism (and Socialism)
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
Constructing Neoliberalism
Socialist Accounting” by Karl Polanyi
Structural Adjustment
Structural adjustment policies and programs are economic reforms that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank require highly indebted countries to implement as a precondition for further loans. In 1980, in response to the emerging worldwide debt crisis, the World Bank extended its first structural adjustment loans, specifically to Bolivia, Kenya, Philippines, Senegal, and Turkey, which the International Monetary Fund supported through …
Engineering Revolution. The Paradox of Democracy Promotion in Serbia
Removing the public from public housing
In the United States, urban regimes have long brought together public and private actors to provide public services. Given this, how do public-private partnerships (PPPs) change public housing? To answer this question, I examine a public housing project: the Ellen Wilson Dwellings in Washington, DC. In 1993, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded one of the first federal HOPE VI grants to a PPP to demolish the Ellen Wilson D…
Science and Environment in Chile
The Struggle over Structural Adjustment
In 1980 the World Bank extended its first structural adjustment loans. Scholars and activists have argued that structural adjustment policies, and the neoclassical economics that legitimates them, destroyed Keynesianism, developmentalism, and socialism. In contrast to the view that structural adjustment began as a clear neoliberal project, I argue that the second and third worlds, in fact, demanded structural adjustment, which, in response, the W…
Democratic Socialism in Chile and Peru
In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government paid the economics department at the University of Chicago, known for its advocacy of free markets and monetarism, to train Chilean graduate students. These students became known as the 'Chicago Boys,' who implemented the first and most famous neoliberal experiment in Chile after 1973. Peruvian, Mexican, and other Latin American economics students followed a similar path and advocated a turn to neoliber…
Art under Neoliberalism
Apart from the longstanding and much-debated problem of art's commodification, how does neoliberalism transform and determine the conditions of artistic practice? Further, if neoliberalism is a substantially distinct stage in the history of capitalism, and not merely its intensification, what are the implications of this new condition for the practice and criticism of contemporary art? What does it mean to practice and theorize art, to be an arti…
J anek W asserman . The Marginal Revolutionaries
In his new book The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas, Janek Wasserman examines the historical trajectory of the Austrian School of economics. The Austrian School is a group of economists originally from Vienna, which included, most famously, Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and is generally thought to have influenced, among others, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. According to Wasserman, we mu…
The Aesthetics of Gentrification
In 1988 a local homeowner in Washington, DC, commissioned a 30-foot mural of an artwork by modernist painter Piet Mondrian on the side of a public housing building, along with several other similar murals across the street. Three months later all the residents of the public housing development were moved out. Later, the buildings were destroyed. Here I explore how these murals enabled the residents' permanent displacement. Explaining this displac…
The origins of the concept “gentrification” within empire and decolonization
Rethinking Russia
In this special Symposium edition of our podcast series Beyond Neo-Liberalism, we dive into Anna Schwenck’s monograph, Flexible Authoritarianism, alongside a panel of leading scholars: Jeremy Morris, Greg Yudin, and Johanna K. Bockman. How do ambition, loyalty, status, and inequality take shape inside an authoritarian regime? Can neoliberal aspirations thrive under authoritarian rule? And how does everyday life—and innovation—unfold within a war-…
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