Die Lage ist ernst. Erst sind es die Banken, dann ganze Staaten und ihre Volkswirtschaften, die unter den für sie aufgespannten "Rettungsschirm" schlüpfen. Das Thema ist omnipräsent und ominös zugleich. Täglich erfahren wir, wie wichtig und unvorstellbar groß dieser Schirm ist. …
Explaining how Eastern Europe's post-communist transition can only be understood as part of a broader interrogation of neoliberal hegemony in the global political economy, this book provides a detailed historical account of the emergence of neoliberalism in Eastern Central Europ…
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink…
Towards new agendas for transformative global studies : an introduction / S A Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara C. Motta, and Barry K. Gill -- Reinventing the radical beyond the critical : towards a transformative scholarship in global studies / S A Hamed Hosseini and Barry K.…
"After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the long-term viability of the neoliberal doctrine has come under new scrutiny. The elimination of regulatory control, the financialization of the economy including the growth of increasingl…
"The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate actors and local populations of hosting communities. The book synthesizes ethnographic research, media reviews, and policy analysis …
Introduction: the genealogy of the economic -- The invention of economic necessity and the political mob -- Life at the limits: scarcity and the economic -- The right to live and the politics of affect -- The return of the political and the cultural critique of economy -- Money …
The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith?s 'The Wealth of Nations'' examines the tenses of the predicates in the famous and typical passages of the monumental work to explore the intricacies of the rhetoric and argument they support, paying particular attention to the question of te…