Westbrook City of Gold

An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-94327-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westbrook, David A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: Desire's Constitution
I. Conception
II. Money as Communication
III. Finance and the War Against Time
IV. Urban Renewal
V. Governance

Part Two: Constitutional Critique
VI. Alienation
VII. Inauthenticity
VIII. Identity, Tense

Part Three: Exhausted Philosophies
IX. The Reformation of Economics
X. After Economic Justice
XI. The Disenchantment of Liberalism

Part Four: Towards a Metropolitan Political Economy
XII. True Markets
XIII. Orderly Markets
XIV. Beyond the Market: Authority and Identity
Conclusion: The Possibility of Affection

Über Autor(innen)

David A. Westbrook is currently an associate professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, and is a former corporate lawyer.