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The Logic of Discipline - Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government (Hardcover)
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The Logic of Discipline - Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government (Hardcover)
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The era of economic liberalization, spanning 1978 to 2008, is often
regarded as a period in which government was simply dismantled. In
fact, government was reconstructed to meet the needs of a
globalized economy. Central banking, fiscal control, tax
collection, regulation, port and airport management, infrastructure
development-in all of these areas, radical reforms were made to the
architecture of government.
A common philosophy shaped all of these reforms: the logic of
discipline. It was premised on deep skepticism about the ability of
democratic processes to make sensible policy choices. It sought to
impose constraints on elected officials and citizens, often by
shifting power to technocrat-guardians who were shielded from
political influence. It placed great faith in the power of legal
changes--new laws, treaties, and contracts--to produce significant
alterations in the performance of governmental systems. Even before
the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline
was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects,
advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the
complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline
emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the
empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians.
The financial crisis did further damage to the logic of discipline,
as governments modified their attitudes about central bank
independence and fiscal control, and global financial and trade
flows declined. It was the market that now appeared to behave
myopically and erratically--and which now insisted that governments
should abandon precepts about the role of government that it had
once insisted were inviolable.
A sweeping account of neoliberal governmental restructuring across
the world, The Logic of Discipline offers a powerful analysis of
how this undemocratic model is unraveling in the face of a
monumental--and ongoing--failure of the market.
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