Geography of Power:
Peet, Richard
Geography of Power: Making Global Economic Policy. Richard Peet - 1st.ed. - London: Zed books, 2007. - 216 p.
Cover; About this book; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: 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; 2 Economic power; Global finance capital; Fordism and capital; Money/power; Wall Street influences; Global risk management; Foreign direct investment; From global risk to global angst; 3 Ideological power; Policy as enlightenment; The geography of reason; Geography of academia. Hierarchies of knowledgeEconomics as discipline; The discourse of Keynesian economics; The discourse of neoliberal economics Critique of neoliberalism; Economics as tragedy; 4 Political power; The great U-turn; The Counter-Establishment; Think tanks; Freedom and democracy; Government bureaucracy --
the Fed; Government bureaucracy --
the Treasury; The IFIs; The Washington Consensus; After the Washington Consensus; The Washington Consensus reappraised Benevolent consensus; Millennium; Hope and charity; 5 Sub-hegemony: South Africa; Discourse of resistance; Discourse of development. Disciplining the ANCGetting in GEAR; Sub-hegemony; 6 Counter-hegemony; WSF alternative principles; UN agencies; UNCTAD; UNDP; Development NGOs; Counter-hegemonic praxis; The Bolivarian alternative; The Bolivian alternative Counter-expertise; 7 The three neos; Neo-imperialism; Neoconservatism; From neoconservatism to neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and its discontents; Bibliography; Index.
9781842777107
338.9 / PEE/G
Geography of Power: Making Global Economic Policy. Richard Peet - 1st.ed. - London: Zed books, 2007. - 216 p.
Cover; About this book; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: 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; 2 Economic power; Global finance capital; Fordism and capital; Money/power; Wall Street influences; Global risk management; Foreign direct investment; From global risk to global angst; 3 Ideological power; Policy as enlightenment; The geography of reason; Geography of academia. Hierarchies of knowledgeEconomics as discipline; The discourse of Keynesian economics; The discourse of neoliberal economics Critique of neoliberalism; Economics as tragedy; 4 Political power; The great U-turn; The Counter-Establishment; Think tanks; Freedom and democracy; Government bureaucracy --
the Fed; Government bureaucracy --
the Treasury; The IFIs; The Washington Consensus; After the Washington Consensus; The Washington Consensus reappraised Benevolent consensus; Millennium; Hope and charity; 5 Sub-hegemony: South Africa; Discourse of resistance; Discourse of development. Disciplining the ANCGetting in GEAR; Sub-hegemony; 6 Counter-hegemony; WSF alternative principles; UN agencies; UNCTAD; UNDP; Development NGOs; Counter-hegemonic praxis; The Bolivarian alternative; The Bolivian alternative Counter-expertise; 7 The three neos; Neo-imperialism; Neoconservatism; From neoconservatism to neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and its discontents; Bibliography; Index.
9781842777107
338.9 / PEE/G