Johanna Bockman- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at George Mason University
Johanna Bockman
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at George Mason University
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Introduction
I am writing a book about gentrification over a 100-year period on one block in Washington, DC. This block is the location of several new experiments and provides some concrete data about what happens to people and the community when they are displaced. My methods are archival research and interviews. My next project is on the 1980s debt crisis, the Non-Aligned Movement, Yugoslavia, and non-aligned finance.
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In 1988 a local homeowner in Washington, DC, commissioned a 30-foot mural of an artwork by modernist painter Piet Mondrian on the side of a public housing building, along with several other similar murals across the street. Three months later all the residents of the public housing development were moved out. Later, the buildings were destroyed. He...
In his new book The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas, Janek Wasserman examines the historical trajectory of the Austrian School of economics. The Austrian School is a group of economists originally from Vienna, which included, most famously, Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and is generally thought...
In 1980 the World Bank extended its first structural adjustment loans. Scholars and activists have argued that structural adjustment policies, and the neoclassical economics that legitimates them, destroyed Keynesianism, developmentalism, and socialism. In contrast to the view that structural adjustment began as a clear neoliberal project, I argue...
In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government paid the economics department at the University of Chicago, known for its advocacy of free markets and monetarism, to train Chilean graduate students. These students became known as the “Chicago Boys,” who implemented the first and most famous neoliberal experiment in Chile after 1973. Peruvian, Mexican,...
In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government paid the economics department at the University of Chicago, known for its advocacy of free markets and monetarism, to train Chilean graduate students. These students became known as the “Chicago Boys,” who implemented the first and most famous neoliberal experiment in Chile after 1973. Peruvian, Mexican,...
Please email me if you can't access a free copy: johanna.bockman@gmail.com
In the United States, urban regimes have long brought together public and private actors to provide public services. Given this, how do public–private partnerships (PPPs) change public housing? To answer this question, I examine a public housing project: the Ellen Wilson Dw...
Being any age, even such a "round number" as 60, is not a virtue but a condition. -- And yet, a large group of my friends have put together a collection now that I passed that numerical hurdle. I am honored and humbled. To reach it, please follow this link: http://polanyiresearchcen.wixsite.com/polanyi/borocz-anniversary or https://www.academia.edu...
Ariane Fischer, David Woodruff, and Johanna Bockman have translated Karl Polanyi’s “Sozialistische Rechnungslegung” [“Socialist Accounting”] from 1922. In this article, Polanyi laid out his model of a future socialism, a world in which the economy is subordinated to society. Polanyi described the nature of this society and a kind of socialism that...
Much globalization scholarship assumes that the United States and other advanced industrialized capitalist countries are the primary agents of globalization. However, when we examine economic globalization more closely and from the perspective of Second- and Third-World institutions, we can see that the Non-Aligned Movement, the Second World, and t...
Johanna Bockman unpacks a hefty term, neoliberalism. She cites its roots and its uses, decoding it as a description of a “bootstraps” ideology that trumpets individualism and opportunity but enforces conformity and ignores structural constraints.
On the heels of the Great Depression and widespread critiques of capitalism, European free-market liberals gathered around von Hayek, an Austrian economist, in the hopes of reviving liberalism and capitalism through a neoliberalism. To develop these ideas and support each other, they created the Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS), which held conferences at...
This article examines three events that have reinforced misunderstandings about neoclassical economics, socialism, and neoliberalism: the socialist calculation debate, economic reforms in socialist Eastern Europe, and 1989. In contrast to assumptions that neoclassical economics is capitalist, this article reveals that, since the nineteenth century,...
The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free market ideas and radical criticisms of the state. Rather than focusing on the agency o...
The Great American Mission examines the rise, fall, and rise again of a specifically American form of development: modernization. David Ekbladh uses a wealth of archival and printed sources, including materials from a large number of U.S. presidential libraries and from the papers of leading members of the U.S. development policy world. The book ma...
During the Cold War, economists utilizing mathematical methods in both the Soviet Union and the United States found they shared a common research project. After the Stalinist years in which they could communicate very little, they found that they had much to learn from each other. Mathematical economics came to bridge the divide between East and We...
Scholars have argued that transnational networks of right-wing economists and activists caused the worldwide embrace of neoliberalism.
Using the case of an Italian think tank, CESES, associated with these networks, the author shows that the origins of neoliberalism
were not in hegemony but in liminality. At CESES, the Italian and American right sou...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
Journal of Cold War Studies 8.2 (2006) 140-141
Nils Gilman, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory
in Cold War America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2003. 329 pp.
In Mandarins of the Future, Nils Gilman examines the rise
and fall of modernization theory in Co...
Using Latour's concepts of "actor-network" and "translation," the authors show that neoliberalism's success in Eastern Europe is best analyzed not as an institutional form diffused along the nodes of a network, but as itself an actor-network based on a particular translation strategy that construes socialism as a laboratory of economic knowledge. T...
A more complex model in content and design than previously applied to the measurement of customer satisfaction within the transportation industry is used in this study. Drawing from the results of previous studies that had a narrower focus, a network of 10 potentially important factors that affect customer satisfaction within the New York City subw...
I analyze articles in the Hungarian reform economics journal ACTA Oeconomica from the 1960s to the 1980s, to show the ways Hungarian economists reconstructed the economy and the economics discipline. Through such reconstructions, Hungarian economists created a large network with economists at its center as essential mediators between the economy, t...
