A Deal They Can’t Resist: Adaptive Accumulation and American Public Policy (Issn, 7)

This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves __adaptive accumulation__, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams. Along the way, corporations project quasi-public aspirations as a central part of their commercial mission, as the state carves out new – or expands old – areas of accumulative growth for corporate America. * Interrogates depiction of US political economy as Anglo-American and ‘hyper-liberal’ * Enhances understanding of variations within neoliberal political economy * Bridges sectors of public policy, demonstrates continuity in state and corporate behavior

This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams. Along the way, corporations project quasi-public aspirations as a central part of their commercial mission, as the state carves out new – or expands old – areas of accumulative growth for corporate America.