Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance

The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of polit...

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Other Authors: Lee, Simon (Editor), McBride, Stephen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed. 2007
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • National Differences in the Face of Pressures to Converge
  • Introduction: Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century
  • European Economic Integration: The Threat to Modell Deutschland
  • Stranded on the Common Ground?: Global Governance and State Power in England and Canada
  • Assessing the Globalization–Decentralization Nexus: Patterns of Education and Reform in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Nicaragua
  • Trans-National Policy Prescriptions
  • Tracking Neo-Liberalism: Labour Market Policies in the OECD Area
  • Social Economy Policies as Flanking Mechanisms for Neo-Liberalism: Trans-national Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives
  • Assessing the Convergence Thesis of Legal Reforms in Emerging Market Economies
  • Labour: A Special Case in the Global Economy?
  • Governance, Trade and Labour Mobility
  • Neo-Liberal Policies and Immigrant Women in Canada
  • The Need for Reform
  • The Logic of Neo-Liberalism and the Political Economy of Consumer Debt-Led Growth
  • World Trade and World Money: The Case for a New World Currency Unit
  • Multilateral Institution-Building in a Neo-Liberal Era: The Case of Competition Policy
  • The World Trade Organization and Global Governance
  • Human Welfare and the Future of the World Trade Organization: Rethinking the International Institutional Architecture
  • The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century?
  • Conclusion: The Need to Rebuild the Public Domain