Johanna Bockman is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. Her current research explores socialist entrepreneurship, the debt crisis of the 1980s, Yugoslav socialism in Latin America, and gentrification in Washington, D.C.
"Johanna Bockman's book, Markets in the Name of Socialism, seeks to chip away at [the] conventional wisdoms [about neoliberalism, the postsocialist transitions, and the economics profession, which calcified after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989]. To do so, she takes her readers on a historically and geographically ambitious worldwide tour of the history of economic thought ... This elegantly written book reveals a compelling vision in which markets are not, as in the orthodox Marxist view, a Trojan horse for the social hierarchies of capitalism, but a variety of human interaction compatible with many different social systems." - Sarah Babb, American Journal of Sociology "Johanna Bockman's Markets in the Name of Socialism offers a refreshing take on a fairly well-trodden question: the relationship between economics and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century ... One of its central strengths is its historically and internationally grounded delineation of the boundary between neoclassicism and neoliberalism ... Bockman offers a useful corrective to unipolar notions of economic knowledge as developing mainly in the West while Eastern European and Soviet economics, subordinated to Marxist ideology, stagnated ... Bockman's work is an important step toward thinking outside of neoliberalism's self-presentation by undermining the problematic dichotomies upon which its has ben built - socialism versus capitalism, states versus markets ... Markets in the Name of Socialism remains an important work that is necessary reading for anyone interested in neoliberalism, economics and the intersection between the two." - Stephanie Lee Mudge, Social Forces "Johanna Bockman's book, Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism, describes the origins of neoliberalism from a unique perspective that has hardly been explored so far, namely, the contribution of Eastern European economists to the articulation and implementation of neoclassical economic theories ... The book provides an important sociological perspective on the intellectual developments in Eastern Europe during the Communist era ... [T]he book is a major contribution to our understanding of the translation of neoclassical economics both to socialism and to neoliberalism, and as such is a particularly important addition to the field." - Nitsan Chorev, Contemporary Sociology "Markets in the Name of Socialism shows that there are important lacunae in the study of neoliberalism as a world-scale ideology... A richly detailed and well-argued book that should interest PEWS scholars as it opens up new areas of research in neoliberalism as a 'structure of knowledge' within the world-system. In all, Bockman's book offers both an important insight into the history and workings of neoliberalism and a spur to further research." - Robert MacPherson, Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) News "Sociologist Johanna Bockman's much-awaited book is undoubtedly an instant classic. Her argument about the left-wing origins of neoliberalism goes against the grain of most theories about neoliberal globalization and postsocialist transformations in Europe. As such, it is a must-read for scholars studying these processes in whatever region of the world... With its clear prose, this is relational and transnational history at its best, and this work will undoubtedly shape scholarship for decades to come." - Zsuzsa Gille, Slavic Review
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