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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The global economy and national politics | |
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| The formation of a global economy | |
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| The new global economy | |
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| Global market forces and national policy-making | |
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| The options for national governments | |
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| Explaining national responses | |
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| The case of Britain | |
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| The long-run impact of the global economy on national politics | |
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| British politics in a global economy | |
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| British governments and economic globalisation, 1975-2000 | |
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| Market forces, social structure and ideology | |
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| Interlude: the 'Big Bang' and its fallout | |
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| Party politics | |
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| Institutional and constitutional change | |
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| The social costs of market-driven politics | |
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| Problems of 'third way' politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Markets, commodities and commodification | |
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| Real markets and politics | |
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| The private lives of commodities | |
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| Services as commodities | |
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| The specificity of commodities: television | |
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| The specificity of commodities: health care | |
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| Public service television | |
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| Public service broadcasting in Britain | |
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| The transition to market-driven broadcasting | |
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| The television market, 1999-2000 | |
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| Restructuring | |
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| How television became a field of capital accumulation | |
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| Commodification and public service television | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The National Health Service | |
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| The National Health Service, 1948-79 | |
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| The transition to commodified health services | |
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| The NHS quasi-market and other health-care markets, 1999-2000 | |
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| The commodification of health care | |
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| Effects | |
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| The NHS Plan and the Concordat with the private sector | |
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| Global market forces and the NHS | |
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| Market-driven politics versus the public interest | |
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| The argument recapitulated | |
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| Is the UK an 'outlier'? | |
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| Does it matter that politics are market-driven? | |
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| Why has there been so little resistance? | |
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| Do public services matter? | |
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| On what basis can public services flourish? | |
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| Is this relevant? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |