The limits of neoliberalism : authority, sovereignty and the logic of competition
William Davies
- xiii, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
- Theory, culture & society .
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.
This text examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measurement, and to re-model society and state in terms of competition. It explores the practical use of economic techniques and conventions by policy-makers, politicians, regulators and judges and how these practices are being adapted to the perceived failings of the neoliberal model.