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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Main Author: Davies, William, 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014.
Series:Theory, culture & society.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages).
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781473906075 (ebook) :