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Geography of power : making global economic policy / Richard Peet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peet, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International Monetary Fund.
- World Bank.
- World Trade Organization.
- International economic relations.
- Economic policy.
- Economic development.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text examines how contemporary global economic policies are made - by which institutions, under what ideologies, & how they are enforced. It shows that neoliberal economic policy is enforced by a few thousand unelected & unaccountable experts in the North & has failed to deliver tolerable living conditions for the poor.
- Contents:
- Introduction : concepts for a geography of power
- Economic power
- Ideological power
- Political power
- Sub-hegemony : South Africa
- Counter-hegemony
- The three neos.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611259167
- 9781350220331
- 1350220337
- 9781848136830
- 1848136838
- 9781281259165
- 1281259160
- 9781848131385
- 1848131380
- OCLC:
- 476155835
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