Geography of power : the making of global economic policy /

Main Author: Peet, Richard
Corporate Author: Zed Books
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London: Zed Books, c2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Concepts for a geography of power
  • What are concepts? Policy regimes, ideology, hegemony, interpretation
  • Discourse governmentality, institutional geography, geography of power global
  • Governance power and policy
  • Economic power
  • Global finance capital fordism and capital money/power global risk management
  • Foreign direct investment, from global risk to global angst
  • Ideological power
  • Policy as enlightenment, geography of academia, hierarchies of knowledge
  • Economics as discipline, the discourse of Keynesian economics, the discourse of neoliberal economics, critique of neoliberalism economics as tragedy
  • Political power
  • The great U turn, the counter-establishment think tanks, freedom and democracy, government bureaucracy
  • the Fed, government bureaucracy - the Treasury, the IFIs, Washington consensus, after the Washington consensus
  • Washington consensus re-appriased, benevolent consensus, millennium hope and charity
  • Sub-hegemony
  • South Africa
  • Discourse of resistance, discourse of development, disciplining the ANC
  • Getting in gear sub-hegemony
  • Counter-hegemony
  • WSF alternative principles, UN agencies: UNCTAD, UNDP, development NGOs
  • Counter-hegemonic praxis, the Bolivarian alternative
  • Counter-expertise
  • The three neos
  • Neoimperialism, neo-conservatism, from neoconservatism to neoliberalism
  • Neoliberalism and its discontents
  • References