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Product Identifiers

PublisherRienner Publishers, Lynne

ISBN-101588262200

ISBN-139781588262202

eBay Product ID (ePID)6032661

Product Key Features

Number of Pages193 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGlobalization and Inequality : Neoliberalism's Downward Spiral

SubjectGlobalization, History & Theory, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

AuthorJohn Rapley

Subject AreaPolitical Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-023327

ReviewsAn outstanding and provocative work. Rapley makes an original and convincing argument, supports it with evidence from an impressively diverse literature... and writes beautifully. - Edward S. Greenberg; ""This is an exciting, thoughtful, and extremely well written book.... Rapley's penetrating analysis of the multiple global forces producing both marginalization and resistance is a must read."" - Randolph B. Persaud

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal303.48/2

Table Of ContentInequality and Instability. The Material Formation of Regimes. Regime and Culture. Neoliberal Globalization and the Crisis of the State. Manifestations of the Crisis. The Crisis Comes Home. Epilogue. Appendix: Neoliberalism and Corporate Globalization.

SynopsisHas the far-reaching experiment in creating a new world order along neoliberal lines succeeded? John Rapley answers with an emphatic no, contending that the rosy picture painted by neoliberal proponents of globalisation was based on false assumptions., Has the far-reaching experiment in creating a new world order along neoliberal lines succeeded? John Rapley answers with an emphatic no, contending that the rosy picture painted by neoliberal proponents of globalization was based on false assumptions. True, Rapley acknowledges, neoliberal reforms often did generate economic growth - but at a price. The resulting increase in inequality led to political instability and spawned tendencies ranging from right-wing populism to renewed ethnic and Islamic militancy. Rapley offers a range of cases to illustrate how neoliberal globalization has helped to destroy regimes in the developing world by profoundly altering patterns of income distribution and resource allocation. The political tensions unleashed by these regime crises, he argues, are now being manifested around the globe, with the negative consequences still to be fully realized.

LC Classification NumberJC330.2.R36 2004