Explaining the Crisis of Iceland: A Realist Approach
This article focuses on critical realist analysis of concrete processes of structure formation and realization of structural propensity. It aims to explain the reasons for the rise and fall of the neoliberal regime in Iceland that led to the extreme expansion of the Icelandic financial system and it...
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ftskemman:oai:skemman.is:1946/11163 2023-05-15T16:45:49+02:00 Explaining the Crisis of Iceland: A Realist Approach Ívar Jónsson 1955- Landsbókasafn Íslands 2012-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1946/11163 en eng Journal of Critical Realism, 2012 ISSN: 1476-7430 http://hdl.handle.net/1946/11163 Article 2012 ftskemman 2022-12-11T06:53:57Z This article focuses on critical realist analysis of concrete processes of structure formation and realization of structural propensity. It aims to explain the reasons for the rise and fall of the neoliberal regime in Iceland that led to the extreme expansion of the Icelandic financial system and its crisis. The article argues that the neoliberal regime was actively constructed by economic and political actors within the framework of the particular structural characteristics of Iceland. It claims that rigid structural conditions due to the very small size of the economy and severe problem of oligopoly undermined the neoliberal utopia of perfect market competition. In order to develop this argument, the paper observes how power elites actively affect public opinion and establish their hegemonic position in the political system. Keywords: capotism, hegemony, morphogenetic sequences, neoliberal regime, plutocracy, structuration, power elites. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Skemman (Iceland) |
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This article focuses on critical realist analysis of concrete processes of structure formation and realization of structural propensity. It aims to explain the reasons for the rise and fall of the neoliberal regime in Iceland that led to the extreme expansion of the Icelandic financial system and its crisis. The article argues that the neoliberal regime was actively constructed by economic and political actors within the framework of the particular structural characteristics of Iceland. It claims that rigid structural conditions due to the very small size of the economy and severe problem of oligopoly undermined the neoliberal utopia of perfect market competition. In order to develop this argument, the paper observes how power elites actively affect public opinion and establish their hegemonic position in the political system. Keywords: capotism, hegemony, morphogenetic sequences, neoliberal regime, plutocracy, structuration, power elites. |
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Explaining the Crisis of Iceland: A Realist Approach |
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Explaining the Crisis of Iceland: A Realist Approach |
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