Masking neo-liberal development: Polanyi, rule of law and dis-embedding dynamics

Latin America's Exclusionary Rural Development in a Neo-liberal World

Relationship between the Rule of Law, Good Governance, and Sustainable Development

This paper reviews the relationship between the rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development as those terms are used by the relevant development organizations; describes the efforts made by various organizations to promote the rule of law and good governance; and addresses the need to strengthen compliance and enforcement for sustainable development. A recent movement, which has re...

The Terms of the Neo-Liberal Consensus

And so the most spectacular crash of the world's most neo-liberal government ushered in the neo-liberal consensus. From now on both major contending parties in the British state accept the essential neo-liberal tenets: markets should rule under the guidance of entrepreneurs, with minimal intervention from government; taxes and public spending, and in particular the redistributive effect of dire...

Human Rights in the Neo-liberal Imagination

Geographical consequences of a neo-liberal state: marketisation and privatisation

The development of the neo-liberal state form in Britain during the 1980s has been characterised by liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and commodification, placing issues of redistribution and social welfare secondary to the demands of business and enterprise. This active neo-liberal strategy has also, although explicitly non-interventionist, been characterised by a strong, centralised...