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The Future of Planning at the ‘ End of History ’

2003; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 2; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/147309520323004

1741-3052

Kanishka Goonewardena,

Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

The hegemony of neoliberalism now poses a fundamental challenge to planners worldwide. Most influential in this regard has been Francis Fukuyama’s End of History ideology and its progenies – or mutations – such as the Third Way. A close reading of their proponents (especially Anthony Giddens) and critics (Perry Anderson, Pierre Bourdieu, Alex Callinicos, John Gray and others) with reference to the contrasting political-economic theories of Friedrich von Hayek and Karl Polanyi, however, reveals the fundamental contradictions of neoliberalism – especially between capitalism and democracy – and identifies for progressive planning the role of extending radical democracy to the realms of the state and the economy.