David A. Westbrook

City of Gold

An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent

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Produktbeschreibung

David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9780415945394
• ISBN-10: 0415945399
• Artikelnr.: 21635000

Autorenporträt

David A. Westbrook is currently an associate professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, and is a former corporate lawyer.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Desire's Constitution I. Conception
II. Money as Communication III. Finance and the War Against Time IV. Urban
Renewal V. Governance Part Two: Constitutional Critique VI. Alienation VII.
Inauthenticity VIII. Identity, Tense Part Three: Exhausted Philosophies IX.
The Reformation of Economics X. After Economic Justice XI. The
Disenchantment of Liberalism Part Four: Towards a Metropolitan Political
Economy XII. True Markets XIII. Orderly Markets XIV. Beyond the Market:
Authority and Identity Conclusion: The Possibility of Affection