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Neoliberal Frontiers

Author : Brenda Chalfin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226100623

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Neoliberal Frontiers by Brenda Chalfin Pdf

In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana’s Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point of the Customs office, Chalfin discovers a fascinating inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation: bureaucrats and local functionaries, government offices, checkpoints, and registries are typically held to be the targets of reform, but Chalfin finds that these figures and sites of authority act as the engine for changes in state sovereignty. Ghana has served as a model of reform for the neoliberal establishment, making it an ideal site for Chalfin to explore why the restructuring of a state on the global periphery portends shifts that occur in all corners of the world. At once a foray into international political economy, politics, and political anthropology, Neoliberal Frontiers is an innovative interdisciplinary leap forward for ethnographic writing, as well as an eloquent addition to the literature on postcolonial Africa.

Contesting Neoliberalism

Author : Helga Leitner,Jamie Peck,Eric S. Sheppard
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781593853204

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Contesting Neoliberalism by Helga Leitner,Jamie Peck,Eric S. Sheppard Pdf

Neoliberalism's "market revolution"--realized through practices like privatization, deregulation, fiscal devolution, and workfare programs--has had a transformative effect on contemporary cities. The consequences of market-oriented politics for urban life have been widely studied, but less attention has been given to how grassroots groups, nongovernmental organizations, and progressive city administrations are fighting back. In case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives, this book examines how struggles around such issues as affordable housing, public services and space, neighborhood sustainability, living wages, workers' rights, fair trade, and democratic governance are reshaping urban political geographies in North America and around the world.

Nature Inc.

Author : Bram BŸscher,Wolfram Dressler,Robert Fletcher
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816530953

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Nature Inc. by Bram BŸscher,Wolfram Dressler,Robert Fletcher Pdf

With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet's environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? Nature™ Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.

The Corporatization of Student Affairs

Author : Daniel K. Cairo,Victoria Cabal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030881283

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The Corporatization of Student Affairs by Daniel K. Cairo,Victoria Cabal Pdf

This volume explores the tensions between the student affairs foundation of holistic student development and the changing culture of corporatization. While there is ample evidence of neoliberalism in the academic affairs of higher education there is very little to no research to understand how neoliberalism is driving the corporatization of student affairs. This book argues that understanding neoliberalism in student affairs is crucial to student success and the student experience. The authors provide contextualized examples for understanding our positionality within the neoliberal system, as well as practical recommendations on resisting market values as common sense, thereby helping to preserve the profession and to imagine a new one centered on people, equity, and justice.

The Mind-Body Politic

Author : Michelle Maiese,Robert Hanna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030195465

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The Mind-Body Politic by Michelle Maiese,Robert Hanna Pdf

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency. Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape the minds of all those who belong to them, for better or worse, usually without their being self-consciously aware of it. Indeed, in contemporary neoliberal societies, it is generally for the worse. In The Mind-Body Politic, Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna work out a new critique of contemporary social institutions by deploying the special standpoint of the philosophy of mind—in particular, the special standpoint of the philosophy of what they call essentially embodied minds—and make a set of concrete, positive proposals for radically changing both these social institutions and also our essentially embodied lives for the better.

The Neoliberal Paradox

Author : Ray Kiely
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788114424

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The Neoliberal Paradox by Ray Kiely Pdf

This ambitious work provides a history and critique of neoliberalism, both as a body of ideas and as a political practice. It is an original and compelling contribution to the neoliberalism debate.

Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas

Author : Ravi K. Roy,Arthur T. Denzau,Thomas D. Willett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135993665

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Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas by Ravi K. Roy,Arthur T. Denzau,Thomas D. Willett Pdf

Critics of globalization often portray neoliberalism as an extremist laissez-faire political-economic philosophy that rejects government any sort of government intervention in the domestic economy. Like most over-used terms, it is more complicated than this introductory sentence suggests. This volume seeks to move beyond these caricature depictions and definitions as well as the emotional rhetoric that has unfortunately dominated both the scholastic and political debate on neoliberalism and global market-oriented reform. This book emphasizes that there are in fact a variety of neoliberalisms that share a common emphasis on the role of the market. Beyond this however, its usages and applications appear much more varied according to the cultural, economic, political, and social context in which it is used. A host of eminent contributors, including Douglass C. North, Arthur T. Denzau, Thomas D. Willett, Mark Blyth, Colin Hay, Craig Parsons, and others provide a rigorous assessment of the significance of neoliberal ideas on economic policy. Through their detailed international case studies the contributors to this book show how varied its impact has in fact been and the result is a book that will stimulate further debate in this most controversial of subject matters. Ravi K. Roy is a Research Scholar at the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies. Arthur T. Denzau is Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is also a Research Associate at the Center for American Business at Washington University (St. Louis).Thomas D. Willett is Horton Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. He is also Director of the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies

Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand

Author : J. Mays,G. Marston,J. Tomlinson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137535318

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Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand by J. Mays,G. Marston,J. Tomlinson Pdf

Basic income is an innovative, powerful egalitarian response to widening global inequalities and poverty experiences in society, one that runs counter to the neoliberal transformations of modern welfare states, social security, and labor market programs. This book is the first collective volume of its kind to ask whether a basic income offers a viable solution to the income support systems in Australia and New Zealand. Though often neglected in discussions of basic income, both countries are advanced liberal democracies dominated by neoliberal transformations of the welfare state, and therefore have great potential to advance debates on the topic. The contributors' essays and case studies explore the historical basis on which a basic income program might stand in these two countries, the ideological nuances and complexities of implementing such a policy, and ideas for future development that might allow the program to be put into practice regionally and applied internationally.

Remaking Market Society

Author : Antonino Palumbo,Alan Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135041694

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Remaking Market Society by Antonino Palumbo,Alan Scott Pdf

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persistent influence of neoliberal ideas on contemporary styles of governance, social-service provision, and public policy, this intensive interest is understandable. At the same time, the use of the term has become loose, vague, and over-extended, particularly in the extensive critical literature. Rather than engage in further critique, or in the reconstruction of the history of neoliberalism, this volume seeks to bring analytical clarity to the ongoing debate. Drawing inspiration from the work of the Hungarian economic historian, Karl Polanyi, Remaking Market Society combines critique, original formulations, and case studies to form an analytical framework that identifies the key instruments of neoliberal governance. These include privatization, marketization, and liberalization. The case studies examine the development of neoliberal instruments (reform of the British civil service); their refinement (reform of higher education in England and Wales); and their dissemination across national borders (EU integration policies). Rather than look back nostalgically on the post-war welfare-state settlement, in the final chapter the authors ask why the coalitions that supported that settlement broke down in the face of the neoliberal reform movement. This highly original work offers a distinctive transdisciplinary approach to political economy, and therefore is an important read for students and academics who are interested in political economy as well as social theory and political philosophy.

Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud

Author : David Whyte,Jörg Wiegratz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317397496

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Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud by David Whyte,Jörg Wiegratz Pdf

There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income countries. Many business sectors in today's global economy are rife with economic crime. Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices have engendered a type of sociocultural change across the globe which is facilitating widespread fraud. This book investigates the moral worlds of fraud in different social and geographical settings, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the outcome of just a few ‘bad apples’. Authors from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology and political science, social policy and economics, employ case studies from the Global North and Global South to explore how particular values, morals and standards of behaviour rendered dominant by neoliberalism are encouraging the proliferation of fraud. This book will be indispensable for those who are interested in political economy, development studies, economics, anthropology, sociology and criminology.

Neoliberalism

Author : Alfredo Saad-Filho,Deborah Johnston
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015060849257

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Neoliberalism by Alfredo Saad-Filho,Deborah Johnston Pdf

Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history.

Transforming the Frontier

Author : Bram Büscher
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822399087

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Transforming the Frontier by Bram Büscher Pdf

International peace parks—transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries—have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In Transforming the Frontier, Bram Büscher shows how cross-border conservation neatly reflects the neoliberal political economy in which it developed. Based on extensive research in southern Africa with the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project, Büscher explains how the successful promotion of transfrontier conservation as a "win-win" solution happens not only in spite of troubling contradictions and problems, but indeed because of them. This is what he refers to as the "politics of neoliberal conservation," which receives its strength from effectively combining strategies of consensus, antipolitics, and marketing. Drawing on long-term, multilevel ethnographic research, Büscher argues that transfrontier conservation projects are not as concerned with on-the-ground development as they are purported to be. Instead, they are reframing environmental protection and sustainable development to fit an increasingly contradictory world order.

Neoliberal Hegemony

Author : Dieter Plehwe,Bernhard J. A. Walpen,Gisela Neunhöffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134191000

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Neoliberal Hegemony by Dieter Plehwe,Bernhard J. A. Walpen,Gisela Neunhöffer Pdf

Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces critical of it continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe. How can we make sense of this paradox? Who actually are "the neoliberals"? This is the first explanation of neoliberal hegemony, which systematically considers and analyzes the networks and organizations of around 1.000 self conscious neoliberal intellectuals organized in the Mont Pèlerin Society. This book challenges simplistic understandings of neoliberalism. It underlines the variety of neoliberal schools of thought, the various approaches of its proponents in the fight for hegemony in research and policy development, political and communication efforts, and the well funded, well coordinated, and highly effective new types of knowledge organizations generated by the neoliberal movement: partisan think tanks. It also closes an important gap in the growing literature on "private authority’’, presenting new perspectives on transnational civil society formation processes. This fascinating new book will be of great interest to students of international relations, political economy, globalization and politics.

Extractive Imperialism in the Americas

Author : James Petras,Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004268869

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Extractive Imperialism in the Americas by James Petras,Henry Veltmeyer Pdf

This book explores the changing face of US imperialism in the context of a system that is in crisis. At issue are the devastating effects of the turn of many multinational corporations towards ‘extractivism’—a pillage of society’s natural resources.

The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism

Author : Andrea Micocci,Flavia Di Mario
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351251181

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The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism by Andrea Micocci,Flavia Di Mario Pdf

Capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system. Thus, all mainstream economic and political theories, including those such as Marxism which are supposed to offer an alternative vision, have been stunted and utopian ideas are completely side-lined. In order to constantly work out the feasible, you have to hang on to pseudo-factual concepts: nationalism; a constant drive for efficiency; the idea of nation/state; corporatism; managed markets; business ethics; governance etc. Capitalism is reduced to the management of the economy by states that fight each other and marvel at the independence of finance. All this, the book argues, is akin, intellectually, economically, politically, and unfortunately individually, to fascism. The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism offers a brief, provocative analysis of this issue with special reference to the most visible executioners of its will: the much-misunderstood managerial class. This group simply happens to hold power, and hence visibility, but they do what everybody else does, and would do, all the time. This is because capitalism is an intellectual outlook that thoroughly directs individual actions through fascist and non-fascist repression. This book argues that the only way to escape capitalism is to recover individual intellectual and sentimental emancipation from capitalism itself in order to produce radical solutions. This volume is of great importance to those who study and are interested in political economy, economic theory and philosophy, as well as fascism and neoliberalism.