Economic Globalisation as Religious War (Routledge RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I......Page 27
1 Neo-liberal war: Casus belli, promises of progress, strategies of dominance, fraud......Page 28
2 Triage: A survey of casualties in the neo-liberal combat zone......Page 53
Part II......Page 73
3 American decline and the ascendancy of Economics: Neo-liberalism as new containment doctrine and theory of globalisation......Page 74
4 The Americanisation of the new Economics: American Exceptionalism and American religion......Page 100
Part III......Page 121
5 Suprema a situ: Economics in the university and the world......Page 122
Part IV......Page 163
6 Equivalence and convergence: Neo-liberal globalisation as war and militarisation......Page 164
7 Congruence: Economics as war......Page 192
8 Romanita: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in neo classical Economics/neo-liberalism (Economics-as-religion)......Page 205
Conclusion: The new age of religious wars: neo-liberalism, neo-Clausewitzianism and the American way of war......Page 227
Epilogues......Page 233
Epilogue 1: Neo-liberalism and the empirical record – theorising global strategic economic incompetence......Page 234
Epilogue 2: Economics as mental illness – a satire?......Page 252
Notes......Page 275
Bibliography......Page 316
Index......Page 339