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Informationen zum Autor William Davies is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Centre. He is author of The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Wellbein g (Verso, 2015) and The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (SAGE, 2014). His writing is available at www.potlatch.org.uk . Klappentext An engaged and impassioned exploration of the extent to which neoliberalism has succeeded in replacing politics with economics. Can economics continue to provide government legitimacy? Zusammenfassung An engaged and impassioned exploration of the extent to which neoliberalism has succeeded in replacing politics with economics. Can economics continue to provide government legitimacy? Inhaltsverzeichnis The Disenchantment of Politics: Neoliberalism, Sovereignty and Economics The Promise and Paradox of Competition: Markets, Competitive Agency and Authority The Liberal Spirit of Economics: Competition, Anti-Trust and the Chicago Critique of Law The Violent Threat of Management: Competitiveness, Strategy and the Audit of Political Decision Contingent Neoliberalism: Financial Crisis and beyond Afterword: Critique in and of Neoliberalism
List of contents
The Disenchantment of Politics: Neoliberalism, Sovereignty and Economics
The Promise and Paradox of Competition: Markets, Competitive Agency and Authority
The Liberal Spirit of Economics: Competition, Anti-Trust and the Chicago Critique of Law
The Violent Threat of Management: Competitiveness, Strategy and the Audit of Political Decision
Contingent Neoliberalism: Financial Crisis and beyond
Afterword: Critique in and of Neoliberalism
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Some books describe the neoliberal project using the neoliberals own terms; others promote more profound understanding by bringing in other intellectual resources. Will Davies is one of the best of the latter. In this fascinating book he inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory, demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means. Professor Philip Mirowski
