The limits of neoliberalism: authority, sovereignty and the logic of competition

Since its intellectual inception in the 1930s and its political emergence in the 1970s, neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by replacing it with economics. This agenda-setting text examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measu...

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1. Verfasser: Davies, William 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London SAGE 2014
Schriftenreihe:Theory, culture & society
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Zusammenfassung:Since its intellectual inception in the 1930s and its political emergence in the 1970s, neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by replacing it with economics. This agenda-setting text examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measurement, and to re-model society and state in terms of competition. In particular, it explores the practical use of economic techniques and conventions by policy-makers, politicians, regulators and judges and how these practices are being adapted to the perceived failings of the neoliberal model
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 220 Seiten)
ISBN:9781473906075