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Geography of power : the making of global economic policy / Richard Peet.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, UK ; New Yor, NY : Zed Books Ltd., 2007.Description: vii, 216 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781842777114 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 1842777114 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 337 PEE 23 001725
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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