Re: PK theories of the state? Request for bibliographic references

["g kohler" <kohlerg@xxxxxxxx>]

Colin Danby wrote, 23 February 2003
". . . Are there any works which have looked critically at how PK theorists
have understood states?"


Walter Russell Mead, both an advocate and a critic of global Keynesianism,
touches on the issue in an article of his. Mead writes:
[quote]
. . . The easy synthesis of Keynesian ideas and the aspirations of social
democracy in the middle of the twentieth century is no longer simple.
. . .
Furthermore, the implicit social model of mid-century Keynesianism - a
disinterested meritocratic priesthood of social engineers administering a
depoliticized society in the name of the general interest - is no longer
appealing in many countries.

The administrative Keynesians of the past seem to have made the unKeynesian
error of assuming that the social, political, and economic conditions with
which they had to deal were immutable. . . ..

A revived Keynesianism capable of serving as the economic basis for a
contemporary philosophy of governance must address these realities. . . .
[end quote]

REFERENCE:
Walter Russell Mead,
"Altered States," The American Prospect, vol. 5 no. 16, December 1, 1994.
Online at: http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V5/16/mead-w.html