Geography of power
Subtitle: the making of global economic policy
By: Richard Peet.
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.; Zed Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London, UK; New Yor, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781842777114; 9781842777107
Subjects: International economic relations; Economic policy; International Monetary Fund; World Bank; World Trade Organization; Economic development; Power (Social sciences)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Concepts for a geography of power; title: What are concepts? Policy regimes, ideology, hegemony, interpretation; title: Discourse governmentality, institutional geography, geography of power global; title: Governance power and policy; title: Economic power; title: Global finance capital fordism and capital money/power global risk management; title: Foreign direct investment, from global risk to global angst; title: Ideological power; title: Policy as enlightenment, geography of academia, hierarchies of knowledge; title: Economics as discipline, the discourse of Keynesian economics, the discourse of neoliberal economics, critique of neoliberalism economics as tragedy; title: Political power; title: The great U turn, the counter-establishment think tanks, freedom and democracy, government bureaucracy; title: the Fed, government bureaucracy - the Treasury, the IFIs, Washington consensus, after the Washington consensus; title: Washington consensus re-appriased, benevolent consensus, millennium hope and charity; title: Sub-hegemony; title: South Africa; title: Discourse of resistance, discourse of development, disciplining the ANC; title: Getting in gear sub-hegemony; title: Counter-hegemony; title: WSF alternative principles, UN agencies: UNCTAD, UNDP, development NGOs; title: Counter-hegemonic praxis, the Bolivarian alternative; title: Counter-expertise; title: The three neos; title: Neoimperialism, neo-conservatism, from neoconservatism to neoliberalism; title: Neoliberalism and its discontents; title: References.