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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793027403321

Titolo

Economy, crime and wrong in a neoliberal era / / edited by James G. Carrier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018

ISBN

1-78920-045-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 pages)

Collana

EASA series ; ; 36

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism - Social aspects

Collective behavior

Right and wrong

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Economy, crime and wrong in a neoliberal era / James G. Carrier -- Marketing clientelism vs corruption : pharmaceutical off-label promotion on trial / Kalman Applbaum -- The measure of sociality : quantification, control and economic deviance / Emil A. Royrvik -- Under pressure : financial supervision in the post-2008 European Union / Daniel Seabra Lopes -- Of taxation, instability, fraud and calculation / Thomas Cantens -- Marketing marijuana : prohibition, medicalization and the commodity / Michael Polson -- Neoliberal citizenship and the politics of corruption : redefining informal exchange in Romanian healthcare / Sabina Stan -- Neoliberalism, violent crime and the moral economy of migrants / Kathy Powell -- How does neoliberalism relate to unauthorized migration? : the U.S.-Mexico case / Josiah McC. Heyman -- All that is normal melts into air : rethinking neoliberal rules and deviance / Steven Sampson.

Sommario/riassunto

"Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrong-doing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that



many people would consider wrong. It furthermore asks whether ideas of economic right and wrong have become so fragmented and localized that collective judgement has become almost impossible"--