Neo-liberalism and the state: lessons from the Tanzania coffee industry | | Author : Murrell L. Brooks, Ambrose T. Kessy | | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Many scholars continue to link neo-liberalism with minimalist state dimensions such as limited regulation, state atrophy, and dispersed political and economic power. This article challenges this position by analyzing neo-liberal state formation in the Tanzanian coffee sector through the political logic of neoliberalization. It argues that the neo-liberal state is correlated with government intervention, expansion, and concentrated political and economic power. Neoliberal crises expose the state’s contradictory role as a facilitator and obstacle to capitalist development, and it constitutes a critical transition point for the state and re-organization of elite interests. |
| Neo-liberalism and the state: lessons from the Tanzania coffee industry | | Author : Murrell L. Brooks, Ambrose T. Kessy | | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Many scholars continue to link neo-liberalism with minimalist state dimensions such as limited regulation, state atrophy, and dispersed political and economic power. This article challenges this position by analyzing neo-liberal state formation in the Tanzanian coffee sector through the political logic of neoliberalization. It argues that the neo-liberal state is correlated with government intervention, expansion, and concentrated political and economic power. Neoliberal crises expose the state’s contradictory role as a facilitator and obstacle to capitalist development, and it constitutes a critical transition point for the state and re-organization of elite interests.
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