Britain's Defense Policy and Armed Forces (Post-1945)

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of the post-1945 history of Britain's defense policy.

"The Evolution of Britain's Defense Posture From 1945 to the Present: An Outline." (2022)

"The Evolution of Britain's Defense Posture, 1945-1979." (2019)

"Foundations of Semi-Superpower Status: Financing Britain's Defense Posture, 1945-1971." (2018)

"The Restructuring of Britain's Navy, 1945-1979." (2019)

"The British Carrier Force, 1945-1979." (2019)

"The British Defence Reviews of the 1990s and Their Legacy." (2021)

The 2021 British Defence Review and the British 'Tilt to the Indo-Pacific.'" (2021)

"'Is the Debate About Reviving Conscription in Britain Really About Conscription at All?' A Note on the Recent Discourse About Conscription in Britain." (2024)

My SSRN (Social Science Research Network)-Published Papers

I have been publishing through the Social Science Research Network since 2018, and the total number now up came to 170 at last count.

Given the number it seems to me appropriate to do something about organizing them for the reader--and so I have decided to here organize them by subject, allotting a page of this blog to each of those subjects that I have found myself writing about time and again. Where its subject matter makes this appropriate, I have listed some papers on more than one page, or even under more than one heading.

The links to those subject pages are listed below in alphabetical order.

Britain's Defense Policy and Armed Forces (Post-1945).

Deindustrialization.

Economic Growth After 1973.

The "Information Age."

The "Middle Class."

The 1990s.

Neoliberalism.

Political Centrism.

The Politics of the Media.

"The Unipolar Moment."

Deindustrialization

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of deindustrialization in the United States and other countries, particularly the U.S. and Britain.

Most of the papers are concerned with attempts to quantify manufacturing output in various ways (and in cases, other material aspects of deindustrialization susceptible to quantification, like the trend in regard to manufacturing equipment stocks) for the purposes of better understanding the issue.

Deindustrialization (U.S.)
"Discussing Deindustrialization: A Note." (2024)

"'What Do the Numbers Actually Say?': American Per Capita Manufacturing Output 1947-2018, the Consumer Price Index, and the Question of Deindustrialization." (2022)

"'American Per Capita Manufacturing Output 1947-2018, the Consumer Price Index, and the Question of Deindustrialization': A Supplementary Data Set and Associated Notes." (2024)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Restructuring of the Economy: A Survey of the Data." (2022)

"Private Fixed Assets, Value Added and the Trade Balance: A Note on the Trends in the U.S. Manufacturing and FIRE Sectors at the Per Capita Level." (2022)

"'What Do the Numbers Actually Say?': A Decade-By-Decade View of U.S. Manufacturing Value Added." (2022)

"The Deindustrialization of Michigan: Notes on the Available Data." (2022)

"The Deindustrialization of Los Angeles? A Note." (2022)

"The Complexities of Deindustrialization: A Note." (2022)

"'Do We Still Make Things in America?': Are Perceptions of Deindustrialization Exaggerated?" (2022)

"Comparative Deindustrialization: A Note on American and British Manufacturing Since the 1970s." (2021)

"Per Capita Manufacturing Output From 1970 On: The United States, Britain, Germany and Japan." (2022)

Deindustrialization (Other Countries)
"Assessing Manufacturing Output Over Time: A Note on The Case of Britain." (2022)

"'Did Margaret Thatcher Destroy British Manufacturing?': A Note." (2021)

"Comparative Deindustrialization: A Note on American and British Manufacturing Since the 1970s." (2021)

"The Deindustrialization of the French Economy: A Note." (2023)

"Per Capita Manufacturing Output From 1970 On: The United States, Britain, Germany and Japan." (2022)

"Is the G-7 Ceasing to be Relevant?" (2022)

Economic Growth After 1973

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of economic growth since the end of the post-war boom (commonly identified with the shocks of 1973).

"The Neoliberal Record: Growth: A Second Look." (2020)

"Economic Growth Since 1973: A Closer Look at the American Experience." (2020)

"The Consumer Price Index and Global Economic Growth in the Twenty-First Century: A Note." (2022)

"The Consumer Price Index and the Estimation of Real Gross Domestic Product Growth: A Note." (2022)

"Is it Possible That Outside China Per Capita Gross World Product Has Not Grown in a Generation?: A Note." (2023)

"Are Economic Analysts Underestimating Economic and Social Stress--and the Potential for Political Instability With It?: A Note." (2022)

"How Does Japan's Economic Performance Look When We Take into Account its Shrinking Working-Age Population?" (2022)

"Rising Complexity, Diminishing Returns, Shrinking Slack: Revisiting the Evidence." (2018)

"The Special Conditions of the Post-War Economic Boom: A Note." (2022)

"U.S. Defense Expenditure and Gross World Product in the Post-World War II Era: A Note." (2022)

"What if the Post-War Boom Had Simply Continued?: Notes on an Economic Counterfactual." (2022)

The "Information Age"

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of "the information age" as previously discussed by its theorists, and the (very different) reality in which we actually live.

"The 'Information Age' Narrative and the Deflection of the Declinist Critique: A Note on the Tech Boom of the 1990s and Its Impact on American Politics." (2023)

"The Information Age Promise of Dematerialization: A Note." (2024)

"The Mood of America in the 1990s: A Note on the American Political Imagination After the Cold War." (2024)

"The Unipolar Moment and the Inflated Technological Expectations of the 1990s: A Note." (2022)

"'The 1990s Are Over': A Note on the Decline of Neoliberalism and the End of Unipolarity." (2022)

"The False Dawn of Information Age Warfare and the Industrial Reality of the Twenty-First Century: A Note." (2024)

"Cyber-Utopianism and Reality: A Note on the Politics of the Internet." (2024)

"To What Extent Was the Left Ever Actually 'Cyber-Utopian?': A Note." (2024)

"The Ascent of the Internet and the Ascent of the Culture War in American Political Life: A Note." (2024)

"Is a Flight into Virtuality Already Underway? A Consideration of Changing Lifeways in the Early Twenty-First Century." (2021)

The "Middle Class"

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of what is so commonly called "the middle class." Central to the concern of this line of research has been the ambiguity of the term as commonly used--and the effort to offer a more meaningful standard as a basis for discussing just how extensive that class may have been in the past, and what has become of it since the mid-twentieth century.

The Definition of Middle Classness
"'What Qualifies a Household's Living Standard as Middle Class?' A Note." (2021)

"Of the Middle Class and the Quasi-Middle Class: A Note." (2023)

"Public Poverty and the Middle Class Living Standard: A Note." (2021)

The Decline of the Middle Class
"The Remaking--and Decline--of the Middle Class: A Note." (2021)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Ambiguities of the Middle Class' Fortunes Between the Mid-Twentieth Century and Today: A Note." (2023)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and Quasi-Middle Classness: A Note." (2023)

"U.S. Average and Median Hourly Compensation and Per Capita Gross Domestic Product: The Trend of the Last Half Century." (2022)

"The Declining Economic Viability of the Single-Income Household: A Note on the Fortunes of the Middle Class." (2022)

"The Four Year College Degree and the Middle Class Living Standard: A Tenuous Relationship." (2022)

"Natality, Senescence and the Quasi-Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era: A Note." (2023)

"The American Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century: Four Theses." (2022)

Neoliberalism

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of neoliberalism. These papers cover such matters as the arguments over the definition of the term; neoliberalism as a distinct economic model; and the policy record of particular governments which have been strongly identified with neoliberalism.

Defining Neoliberalism
"'What is Neoliberalism? And What Has it Meant?': A Primer." (2021)

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Neoliberalism: Three Dimensions of the Issue." (2022)

"Daniel Rodgers' Critique of the Term 'Neoliberalism': A Note." (2023)

The Policy (and Rhetorical) Record of Governments and Politicians
"Was the Clinton Administration Neoliberal?" (2018)

"Neoliberalism in a Time of Crisis: A Critical Assessment of the Defining Policies of the Obama Administration." (2019)

"'Was Tony Blair's Prime Ministership Neoliberal?': A Survey of British Economic Policy, 1979-2007." (2020)

"'Is Keir Starmer a Neoliberal?': A Note on Keir Starmer's Political Rhetoric." (2021)

Neoliberalism as Economic Model
"Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization: A Comparison of Economic Models." (2020)

"Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization: A Comparison of Economic Models (A Follow-Up Note on Rent-Seeking)." (2023)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Restructuring of the Economy: A Survey of the Data." (2022)

"'Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Restructuring of the Economy': A Follow-Up Note on the Question of Profit." (2022)

"Understanding the Endurance of Large States in the Neoliberal Era: Six Theses." (2021)

"Keynesian Fordism's Limits, Aftermath and Legacy: A Note." (2024)

Neoliberalism and Politics
"Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization: A Note on the Transition Between Eras." (2021)

"American Neoliberalism: A Note on its Evolving Rationales and the Actualities of its Record." (2023)

"Neoliberalism as a Utopian Project of the Right: A Note." (2023)

"Were the Neoliberals 'Neoliberals' After All? A Note on Charles Peters' 'A Neoliberal's Manifesto.'" (2023)

"Centrists' Stance Toward Neoliberalism's Critics: A Note." (2022)

"Neoliberalism, British Identity, and Brexit." (2020)
"Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism and the Remaking of British Identity." (2022)

"Ecological Catastrophe and the Neoliberal Imagination." (2020)

"Of Singularitarianism and Flying Cars: Our Changing Images of the Future, and Our Changing Economic Models." (2020)

Economic Growth Under Neoliberalism
"The Neoliberal Record: Growth: A Second Look." (2020)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Restructuring of the Economy: A Survey of the Data." (2022)

"Investments in Societal Complexity, Diminishing Marginal Returns and Neoliberalism: A Note." (2020)

The Decline of Neoliberalism?
"'The 1990s Are Over': A Note on the Decline of Neoliberalism and the End of Unipolarity." (2022)

"The Decline of Neoliberalism? A Critical View." (2022)

"The 'Decline' of Neoliberalism as Against the 'End' of Neoliberalism: A Note." (2023)

Neoliberalism and the Middle Class
"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Ambiguities of the Middle Class' Fortunes Between the Mid-Twentieth Century and Today: A Note." (2023)

"Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and Quasi-Middle Classness: A Note." (2023)

"Natality, Senescence and the Quasi-Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era: A Note." (2023)

Other Papers on Neoliberalism
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Neoliberalism: Three Dimensions of the Issue." (2022)

"Cryptocurrency as Symbol of the Neoliberal Era: A Note." (2023)

The 1990s

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of the 1990s, focusing on its politics--in cases, as reflected in its popular culture.

"The Mood of America in the 1990s: A Note on the American Political Imagination After the Cold War." (2024)

"U.S. Gross World Product Share in the 1990s and The Anticipations of a Unipolar Era." (2022)

"The Unipolar Moment and the Inflated Technological Expectations of the 1990s: A Note." (2022)

"The 'Information Age' Narrative and the Deflection of the Declinist Critique: A Note on the Tech Boom of the 1990s and Its Impact on American Politics." (2023)

"Thomas Frank's 'Market Populism': Is it Still Relevant?" (2022)

"'The 1990s Are Over': A Note on the Decline of Neoliberalism and the End of Unipolarity." (2022)

"What Made the '90s so 'Extreme?' A Note on the 'Extreme' Aesthetic of the Decade." (2024)

"Revisiting the 'Extreme' Culture of the 1990s: A Fuller Consideration." (2023)

"The Decline of the Spy Story and the Transformation of the Thriller in the 1990s: The Data From the Bestseller List." (2018)

"The American Military Techno-Thriller and the Debate Over Women in Combat of the 1990s." (2024)

"Reliving the 1940s in the 1990s: Germany and Japan in the Military Techno-Thriller." (2024)

Political Centrism

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of political centrism. These papers define the term; situate centrism within the history of political philosophy and the political spectrum, especially as perceived in America (specifically explaining centrism as an adaptation of classical conservatism to mid-twentieth century Cold War America); and proceeds to discuss a number of smaller aspects of the phenomenon, particularly the connections between centrism and the culture of the professional groups, centrism's bounding of the legitimate spectrum of political discourse, and centrism's influence on the conduct of the mainstream of the American media.

Centrism: What it is and is Not
"American Centrism: Five Theses." (2022)

"'What is Centrism?': An Examination of Centrism as a Conservative Political Philosophy." (2021)

"'What is Centrism?': A Follow-Up." (2022)

"The Centrist Electoral Promise of a More Competent Conservatism: A Note." (2023)

"Classical Conservatism, Centrism and the Emotional Appeal of Ideology." (2024)

Centrism in Relation to Other Ideologies and Tendencies
"On the Confusion of Centrism with Liberalism: A Note." (2023)

"The Confusion of the Political Center with the Left: A Note on Some of the Implications." (2023)

"Pseudo-Conservatives, Pseudo-Liberals, the Pseudo-Left and the Incoherence of American Political Discourse." (2023)

"Centrism and the Legitimate Bounds of Political Discourse: A Note." (2023)

"Centrism and Populism: A Note." (2022)

"Revisiting Richard Hofstadter's 'Pseudo-Conservatism.'" (2023)

"What is Fascism? The View From Left, Center and Right: A Note." (2022)

"Centrists' Stance Toward Neoliberalism's Critics: A Note." (2022)

Centrism and the Professional Occupational Groups
"Centrism and the Politics of Expertise in American Discourse: A Note." (2023)

"The Professional Outlook and Political Centrism: A Note." (2023)

Centrism and the Media
"Toward a Fuller Understanding of Media Bias: The Role of Centrist Ideology." (2022)

"Toward a Theory of Media 'Both Sidesism': A Note." (2024)

Centrism Outside the United States
"Centrism, The Labour Party and Keir Starmer in 2023: A Note." (2023)

The Politics of the Media

This page lists my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) working papers addressing the subject of the politics of the American media, with a focus on the news media, and especially the influence of centrist political ideology here.

News Media
"Toward a Fuller Understanding of Media Bias: The Role of Centrist Ideology." (2022)

"Toward a Theory of Media 'Both Sidesism': A Note." (2024)

"Centrism and the Politics of Expertise in American Discourse: A Note." (2023)

"What It Means for the News Business to Be a Business—And Journalism a Profession: A Note." (2022)

Popular Culture
"Liberal Hollywood? A Note on the Conventional Wisdom." (2022)

"Why Does Discussion of Pop Culture Make Up So Large a Part of Political Discourse in Twenty-First Century America?" (2022)

Politics of the Internet
"Cyber-Utopianism and Reality: A Note on the Politics of the Internet." (2024)

"To What Extent Was the Left Ever Actually 'Cyber-Utopian?': A Note." (2024)

"The Ascent of the Internet and the Ascent of the Culture War in American Political Life: A Note." (2024)