1st Edition
Remaking Market Society A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times
Introduction
PART I
Modernity: continuity and change
1 Social theory as critique of political economy: the Polanyian synthesis and its influence
2 Theories of the second modernity: a critique
3 A modernist counternarrative
PART II
Models and cases: the New Public Management template
4 New Public Management and the British civil service: setting the template of a complex policy instrument
5 Refining the template: NPM in British higher education
6 Exporting the template: EU integration policies and the diffusion of the NPM template
7 Conclusion: is knowledge the new fictitious commodity?
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Antonino Palumbo is a political theorist who works on globalization, the transformation of governance and the implications of changes in state steering for modern representative democracies. Since 2002 he has been teaching at Palermo University (Italy), where he is an associate professor in political philosophy.
Alan Scott is Professor in the School of Behavioural, Cognitive, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has taught and researched at universities in the UK, Austria, Australia, and France, and his main research interests are in the fields of political sociology and social theory.
"On a theoretical level, the authors aim to formulate a powerful modernist counternarrative to both postmodern social theory and neoliberal political economy approaches towards social and economic change. In doing so, they provide a sophisticated and demanding contribution to the critical literature on neoliberalism and neoliberal policies." - Karl M. Beyer
