The Limits of Neoliberalism

Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition

AvWilliam Davies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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"Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence.”
- Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here

"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life."
- Professor Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster

"In a world that seems to lurch from one financial crisis to the next, this book questions both the sovereignty of markets and the principles of competition and competitiveness that lie at the heart of the neoliberal project."
- Professor Nicholas Gane, University of Warwick

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.

By picking apart the defining contradiction that arises from the conflation of economics and politics, this book asks: to what extent can economics provide government legitimacy?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Antal sidor:240
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781446270684

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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William Davies is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Centre.He is author of The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing (Verso, 2015) and The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (SAGE, 2014). His writing is available at www.potlatch.org.uk.

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Some books describe the neoliberal project using the neoliberals’ own terms; others promote more profound understanding by bringing in other intellectual resources. Will Davies is one of the best of the latter. In this fascinating book he inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory, demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means.

Innehållsförteckning

The Disenchantment of Politics: Neoliberalism, Sovereignty and EconomicsThe Promise and Paradox of Competition: Markets, Competitive Agency and AuthorityThe Liberal Spirit of Economics: Competition, Anti-Trust and the Chicago Critique of LawThe Violent Threat of Management: Competitiveness, Strategy and the Audit of Political DecisionContingent Neoliberalism: Financial Crisis and beyondAfterword: Critique in and of Neoliberalism

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