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PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-100415945402
ISBN-139780415945400
eBay Product ID (ePID)2353267
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Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCity of Gold : an Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent
Publication Year2003
SubjectUrban & Regional, Political Economy, Sociology / General, Globalization, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Development / Economic Development
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid A. Westbrook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight23.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-006596
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"City of Gold is an extraordinarily bold effort to understand the economic, cultural, and political implications of globalization. Westbrook draws on his deep understanding of economics, critical theory, and the world of high finance to move beyond traditional academic boundaries and thereby rethink the rise of supranational capitalism. At the same time, he moves easily and gracefully through the realms of history, classical philosophy, psychology, and art criticism. This book will entrance its readers, not just for the sweep of its argument, or the eclectic nature of its insights, but for its sheer intellectual daring and brilliance." -- --Pierre Schlag, Byron White Professor of Law, University of Colorado "City of Gold has been produced with a keen critical sensibility by an author who knows intimately the workaday and policy worlds of the law and corporations, but who is also steeped in the critical theories that have so informed cultural analysis of the past three decades. Among the several current ambitious efforts to come to terms with the changing nature of capitalism as a form of life--economic, cultural, and especially, as a system of politics and values--in the present "great transformation" in which we are all immersed, Westbrook's is the best that I know, for its passion, its readability, and the unique ways in which it is informed." -- --George Marcus, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Rice University "In City of Gold, one of our best young international law scholars grapples with the promise and perils of globalization. David Westbrook brings imagination, realism, and moral seriousness to a set of problems that for better or worse are transforming the way human beings live in every corner of the world." -- --Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University "a powerful demonstration of the limits within which global ... organiz[es] economic interaction in our cosmopolitan society." -- Journal of World Trade Human Rights "Mentioned in the Michigan Law Review." "City of Gold deserves to be taken seriously, read widely, and debated critically. Westbrook successfully bridges the fields of economics, international law, critical theory, and social change. He demonstrates an ability to combine critical reasoning with a concern about actual policy. In the process, he provides us with important insights about global capitalism."--International Studies Review (2006) 8, 107-108 "The whole book is a powerful demonstration of the limits within which global capitalism may be seen as an effective and efficent way of organizing economic interaction in our cosmopolitan society."--Journal of World Trade 39(1) 2005
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal337
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisDavid 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., In City of Gold, David A. Westbrook argues that economic globalization has produced a "City of Gold": a global, cosmopolitan polity constituted by markets, and where capital markets -- not states -- have become the dominant mode of governance. But there are troubling consequences from using markets as the primary political mechanism. Traditional politics have been undermined and an inadequate economic logic rules. Despite the problems inherent in this new political economy, however, Westbrook sees the City as an acceptable response to the crisis of the nation state, and moreover, as a way of life with its own rewards and possibilities. From this basis, Westbrook advocates a political imagination that moves beyond the logic of capitalism yet which acknowledges the continuing centrality of markets -- with all of their profound limitations -- to our lives. Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberHF1418.5.W44 2003
