This important new collection gathers together a world class team of contributors to assess the impact of neoliberalism on the world economy. These include Douglass C. North, Robert Keohane, Peter Hall and Peter Katzenstein.

Table of Contents PrefaceEric HelleinerPart I: Conceptual Analysis: Shared Mental Models & NeoliberalismChapter 1Introduction: Neoliberalism as a Shared Mental ModelRavi K. Roy, Arthur T. Denzau, & Thomas D. Willett,Chapter 2Shared Mental Models: A postscriptArthur T. Denzau, Douglass C. North, & Ravi K. RoyChapter 3The Meanings of NeoliberalismNancy AuerbachChapter 4The Genealogy of NeoliberalismColin HayChapter 5When Liberalisms Change: Comparing the politics of deflations and inflationsMark BlythChapter 6The Evolution in Macroeconomics: Principles, policy, and performanceGraham Bird Part II: National and Regional Experiments with Neoliberal Mental ModelsChapter 7The Neoliberal Shift in US Fiscal Policy from the 1980s to the 1990s:A Shared Mental Model approach to understanding coalition-driven policy shiftsRavi K. Roy & Arthur T. Denzau, Chapter 8Shared Mental Models and Active Labor Market Policy in Britainand Ireland: ideational coalitions and divergent policy trajectoriesNigel BoyleChapter 9Neoliberalism isn't Enough: On the interaction of the neoliberaland Europeanist Shared Mental Models in the European UnionCraig ParsonsChapter 10Neoliberal Reform in the Post-Communist World:Mental Models in the transition from plan to marketShale HorowitzChapter 11The Clash of Mental Models in the Middle East: Neoliberal vs. Islamic ideasLewis SniderChapter 12Experiments with Neoliberalism in India: Shattering of a mental modelSunil RongalaChapter 13East Asian and Neoliberal Mental ModelsRavi K. Roy & Arthur T. DenzauChapter 14Mental Models of the Economy and Economic Policy in IndonesiaStephen V. MarksChapter 15The Usefulness of the Shared Mental Model Framework for Understanding Latin American Economic History: From dependencia to neoliberalismAnil HiraChapter 16The Absence of Social Capital and the Failure of the GhanianNeoliberal Mental ModelNicholas Amponsah