The limits of neoliberalism : authority, sovereignty and the logic of competition / William Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, William, 1976- author.

Contributor:

Steele, Mila, editor.

Scott, Wendy, cover designer.

Series:

Theory, culture & society.

Theory, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages).

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The limits of neoliberalism (cover)

Contents

About the author

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1: The disenchantment of politics: neoliberalism, sovereignty and economics

Chapter 2: the promise and paradox of competition: markets, competitive agency and authority

Chapter 3: the liberal spirit of economics: competition, anti-trust and the chicago critique of law

Chapter 4: the violent threat of management: competitiveness, strategy and the audit of political decision

Chapter 5: contingent neoliberalism: financial crisis and beyond

Afterword: Critique in and of neoliberalism

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2014).

ISBN:

9781473906075

1473906075

9781473905344

1473905346

OCLC:

881858812