The UK
Less a liberal market economy, more a post-imperial one
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3833065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Coates (0000-0002-8401-2783, Wake Forest University, corresponding author), David Coates (Wake Forest University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171-182 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0309816813514816 |
| OpenAlex | W2160699921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article adds a new element to the growing critique of the original varieties of capitalism (VoC) distinction between liberal and coordinated market capitalisms by questioning the usefulness of the liberal market economy (LME) category itself. It demonstrates that many of the distinguishing features of the LME category are - in the US and UK cases at least - best explained by those economies' external global and hegemonic role, rather than by their internal institutional complementarities. Imperialism holds the key to liberalism - a key demonstrated here by a detailed examination of the UK case. The lessons for the study of comparative capitalisms are major: a total setting aside of the LME/CME distinction, and a return to the building of a global understanding of capitalism which is more than the sum of its individual parts. In order to understand LMEs, you need to understand imperialism; and to understand imperialism, you have to engage again with a revitalised Marxism
Aside · Capitalism · Economics · Economy · Hegemony · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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The Legitimation of Post-crisis Capitalism in the United Kingdom
Comparative capitalisms in the Anthropocene
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Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective
A very British state capitalism
The general theory of employment, interest, and money
The long twentieth century
British Imperialism
Varieties of Capitalism
An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism
Models of Capitalism
Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches
Capitalism Divided
Employer Resistance to the Fordist Production Process
Liberal Militarism and the British State
The Decline of the British Economy
Empire and Superempire
Britain
The Peculiarities of the British Economy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |