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Hardcover:
9780190459895 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2017, cover price $27.95
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9780801450334 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 17, 2012, cover price $35.00
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9780801478864 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, May 14, 2013), cover price $18.95
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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9780195374988 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 23, 2010, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: The era of economic liberalization, spanning 1978 to 2008, is often regarded as a period in which government was simply dismantled.
Paperback:
9780199846146 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2011), cover price $28.95
Hardcover:
9780521858700 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $49.99
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9780521731546 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2008), cover price $29.99
Product Description: When the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the âimperial presidencyâ gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president down the road to ruin. But the inside story of the failures of the Bush administration is both much more complex and alarming, says leading policy analyst Alasdair Roberts...read more
Hardcover:
9780814776063 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: When the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the âimperial presidencyâ gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president down the road to ruin.
Contains many traditional tales that aim to transport the readers to the remote and beguiling Morar Highlands. This book features various characters, from mysterious loch monsters and fugitive princes to lords, priests and smugglers, as well as the ordinary people who have made this fascinating part of Scotland their home for thousands of years.
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9781841584423 | Ill edition (Gardners Books, June 20, 2006), cover price $17.75 | About this edition: Contains many traditional tales that aim to transport the readers to the remote and beguiling Morar Highlands.
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9781841580289 | Birlinn Ltd, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.95
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9780080257198 | Pergamon Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $22.00 | also contains Brown Sugar: Over One-Hundred Years of America's Black Female Superstars
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9780080257181 | Aberdeen Univ Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $12.00 | also contains The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
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