Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures

This book explores how culture, politics, and ideology help shape market incentives in an attempt to reclaim the language of economic rationality and the policymaking legitimacy that accompanies it.

About the author

Nancy Neiman earned an MA in Economics and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. She has taught at Scripps College since 1993, where she has held positions in the Politics and Economics Departments and the Mary Wig Johnson Chair in Teaching. Professor Neiman is the author of States, Banks, and Markets: Mexico’s Path to Financial Liberalization in Comparative Perspective (Westview, 2001). Her research covers a wide variety of topics, including neoliberalism, dollarization, financial crises in Latin America, fair trade coffee in Africa, alternative education in the U.S., and politics of the global food movement. Markets, Community, and Just Infrastructures represents a culmination of years of diverse and interdisciplinary teaching, research, and community engagement.

Summary

This book explores how culture, politics, and ideology help shape market incentives in an attempt to reclaim the language of economic rationality and the policymaking legitimacy that accompanies it.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Neiman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780367472559
• ISBN: 978-0-367-47255-9
• Pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Politics & government, Economic theory & philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Political Economy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Politics and government, Human Geography, Economic theory and philosophy, Economic justice, neoliberal critique, social inequality studies, environmental policy research, labour relations analysis, community-based market reform