The Neoliberal Revolution

RICHARD ROBISON is Professor of Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. He was formerly Director of the Australian Research Council's Special Centre for Research on Political and Economic Change in Asia. He writes on the politics of markets and his most recent book (with Vedi Hadiz) is Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets.

The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spread of market economies and how neo-liberal agendas are accommodated or hijacked in collisions with authoritarian states and populist oligarchies.The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spread of market economies and how neo-liberal agendas are accommodated or hijacked in collisions with authoritarian states and populist oligarchies.