Politics and Markets (Soundings)

by JonathanRutherford (Editor)

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  2007

  $9.49

  Ken Livingstone discusses his creative and pragmatic approach to politics and business with Doreen Massey. Erik Olin Wright puts forward a guide to transformative politics. Jonathan Rutherford explores the intellectual and institutional links between leading insurance companies, the academy and new government policies on welfare reform. Janet Newman and Nick Mahony discuss the language and practice of democracy under New Labour. Michael Rustin argues that it is the prioritisation of economic growth over other values that is making people unhappy amidst their increasing affluence. Richard Jones analyses the science and politics of nanotechnology. Valerie Bryson looks at the way time is colonised by neoliberalism. And Faisal Devji explores the spread of private and civilian practices among the US military, which he argues is a logical result of the practices of the war on terror.