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100 _a Harvie, David
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245 _aBroken promises of the social investment market
260 _bSage,
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300 _aVol 51, Issue 4, 2019,( 980-1004 p.)
520 _aThe United Kingdom is pioneering a new model for the delivery of public services, based around the device of a social investment market. At the heart of this social investment market is an innovative new financial instrument, the social impact bond (SIB). In this paper we argue that the SIB promises (partial) solutions to four aspects of the present multifaceted crisis: the crisis of social reproduction; the crisis of capital accumulation; the fiscal crisis of the state; and the crisis of political legitimacy. In this sense, we conceive the social investment market as a crisis management strategy. We draw on evidence from the world’s first SIB, the Peterborough SIB, launched in 2010, as well as from other SIBs, in order to assess the extent to which the social investment market delivers on its four promises. In doing so, we argue that the crisis of neoliberalism and the social investment market are not only in historical correspondence, but in a relation of causality to one another. In developing this argument, this paper contributes to contemporary theories of neoliberalism by investigating how concrete state developments and societal restructuring is being advanced around the idea of linking marketization with progressive social change. It also supports critical practitioners by offering a theoretical lens to identify the contradictions of this increasingly popular policy approach.
650 _aNeoliberalism,
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650 _a crisis,
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650 _afinancialization,
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650 _a marketization,
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650 _asocial investment,
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650 _asocial reproduction,
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650 _aBig Society,
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650 _asocial impact bond,
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650 _apublic services,
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650 _aprobation services
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700 _aOgman, Robert
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_dSage, 2019.
_tEnvironmental and planning A: Economy and space
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19827298
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