1st Edition
Discipline in the Global Economy? International Finance and the End of Liberalism
1. Introduction Part I: The Asian Crisis 2. Toward a Problematization of The Asian Crisis 3. Understanding Asia’s Crisis 4. What Happened to Asia? 5. The East Asia Crisis – How IMF Policies Brought the World to the Verge of a Global Meltdown 6. The Asian Debt- and Development Crisis of 1997-?: Causes and Consequences 7. Two To Tango? Part II: Discipline in the Global Economy 8. Strengthening the International Financial Architecture 9. Michel Foucault’s Analysis of Disciplinary Power 10. Disciplining Economies 11. So What is ‘Proper’ Economy? 12. More Heat Than Light – Anatomy of a Regulatory Failure 13. The Post-Washington Consensus Part III: The End of Liberalism? 14. What is Liberalism? 15. Liberalism – The Invention of ‘The Economy’ 16. Neoliberalism – Governing Through Markets 17. So is it the End of Liberalism? Part IV: A Way Forward 18. A New Regulation of International Finance
Biography
Jakob Vestergaard has an M.Sc. in Economics (University of Copenhagen) and PhD in International Political Economy (Copenhagen Business School). Before taking up his current position as Project Researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS), he was ESRC Post Doctorial Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
.
"It would be difficult to find an analysis that is more critical of the dominance of the Washington Consensus in the construction of the international financial system than is Vestergaard's... (His) analysis of the failure of the IFA leads to a series of prescriptions for the regulation of international finance. Recommended."
D. C. Messerschmidt, Lynchburg College, Choice, September 2009
"A refreshing perspective on international finance that will be of major value to those of us interested in finance and the global development of capitalism."
Andreas Jansson, Växjö University, Sweden.
"This book could scarcely be more pertinent … Discipline in the Global Economy? is a fascinating and original guide."
Professor Robert Wade, London School of Economics and Politics
"[This book] provides a telling indictment of the way international financial regulation was high-jacked by a particularly virulent form of market fundamentalism which, as we have all come to recognize at our cost, has now proved a disaster."
- Grahame Thompson, Economy & Society
