F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, vol.3, The Political Order ofa FreePeople ( Chicago, 1979), pp.22-35.
2.
Ibid., p.99.
3.
Ibid., pp.89-90.
4.
Ibid., p.94.
5.
Ibid., p.96.
6.
Thomas Edsall and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction (New York, 1991 ), p.206.
7.
Ibid., pp.222-30.
8.
See the arguments of the Federation for American Immigration Reform presented in William Hamilton, 'Harvest of blame', Washington Post (4 June 1993), lA and 4A.
9.
For an acute survey of leading theorists of the Right, including Hayek, which stresses their links to practical politics, see Perry Anderson, 'The intransigent Right', London Review of Books (Vol.14, no.18, 24 September 1992).
10.
Mancur Olson , The Rise and Decline of Nations ( New Haven, 1982). Worth special note is Olson's concept of 'jurisdictional integration' as a means of weakening interest groups, a discussion which seems particularly prescient with the expansion of NAFTA and the tightening of EC integration.
11.
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London, 1985), p.111.
12.
Ibid., pp.179-80.
13.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 ( New York, 1978), p.7.
14.
For an excellent short survey of the condition of the US poor at the end of the 1980s, see Elliott Currie, 'Heavy with human tears: free market policy, inequality and social provision in the United States', in Ian Taylor (ed.), The Social Effects of Free Market Policies (New York, 1990), pp.199-219.
15.
Christopher Norris, who has persuasively criticised postmodern perspectivism in many works, gives a vivid demonstration of this proposition in Uncritical Theory: postmodernism, intellectuals and the Gulf War (Amherst, 1992).
16.
Frank Levy and Richard Murnane , 'US earnings levels and earnings inequality: a review of recent trends and proposed explanations', Journal of Economic Literature (Vol. XXX, September 1992), pp.1333-81.
17.
Lawrence Mishel and David Frankel, The State of Working America 1992-1993 (Armonk, New York , 1993), p.13.
18.
Paul Krugman , 'The income distribution disparity', Challenge (No.33, July/August 1990 ), p.4.
19.
Mishel and Frankel, op.cit, pp.39, 49.
20.
Jason DeParle , 'Sharp increase along the borders of poverty' , The New York Times (31 March 1994), A-18; Mishel and Frankel, op.cit, p.173.
21.
Ellen Meiksins-Wood , '''Civil society" and the devaluation of democracy' , Socialism in the World (Nos 74-5, 1989), p.176.
22.
Ibid., p.177.
23.
For an elaboration of this argument see James Petras and Steve Vieux, 'The decline of revolutionary politics: capitalist detour and the return of socialism', Journal of Contemporary Asia (Vol.24, no.1, 1994).
