By William Davies
ISBN-10: 1446270688
ISBN-13: 9781446270684
ISBN-10: 1526403528
ISBN-13: 9781526403520
- Evgeny Morozov, writer of to save lots of every little thing, click on Here
"A gleaming, unique, and provocative research of neoliberalism... a particular account of the various, occasionally contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life."
- Professor Bob Jessop, collage of Lancaster
"In a global that turns out to lurch from one monetary main issue to the following, this e-book questions either the sovereignty of markets and the foundations of festival and competitiveness that lie on the center of the neoliberal project."
- Professor Nicholas Gane, collage of Warwick
Since its highbrow inception within the Thirties and its political emergence within the Seventies, neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by means of changing it with economics.
This agenda-setting textual content examines the efforts and screw ups of monetary specialists to make govt and public existence amenable to dimension, and to re-model society and kingdom when it comes to festival. particularly, it explores the sensible use of monetary innovations and conventions by way of policy-makers, politicians, regulators and judges and the way those practices are being tailored to the perceived failings of the neoliberal version.
By deciding on aside the defining contradiction that arises from the conflation of economics and politics, this publication asks: to what volume can economics supply govt legitimacy?
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