TY - CONF

T1 - Unpacking the Global Crisis

T2 - Neo-liberalism, Financial Crises, and Authoritarian Liberalism

A1 - Juego,Bonn

A1 - Schmidt,Johannes Dragsbæk

AU - Juego,Bonn

AU - Schmidt,Johannes Dragsbæk

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - <div style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"><p style="margin: 0px; font: 11px 'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium">The paper hopes to contribute to a reading of the political economy of the current global crisis with a focus on four interrelated themes. First, we discuss the <em>constitutive </em>role and <em>functional </em>character of crises in the evolution of neo-liberalism in particular and in capitalist reproduction in general. Second, we investigate the mechanisms by which financial crises recur by highlighting the <em>structure-agency <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal"><em>dynamics </em>in finance capitalism; specifically, the structural tendency of financial markets to disintegrate that has been exacerbated by misbehaviour of economic agents. Third, we look at opposing crisis responses—from multilaterals to regional organisations to global civil society—and realise that responses from either pro-neoliberal or anti-neoliberal forces are <em>fundamentally the same <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal">through the years, simply re-articulating analyses and programmes that they have respectively pursued and advocated long before the global crisis. And fourth, in the context of East and Southeast Asia, we examine the tendencies of the global crisis vis-à-vis the strengthening and even acceleration of emergent <em>authoritarian liberalism </em>in the region despite and because of the global crisis.</span></em></span></em></span></p></div>

AB - <div style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px"><p style="margin: 0px; font: 11px 'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium">The paper hopes to contribute to a reading of the political economy of the current global crisis with a focus on four interrelated themes. First, we discuss the <em>constitutive </em>role and <em>functional </em>character of crises in the evolution of neo-liberalism in particular and in capitalist reproduction in general. Second, we investigate the mechanisms by which financial crises recur by highlighting the <em>structure-agency <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal"><em>dynamics </em>in finance capitalism; specifically, the structural tendency of financial markets to disintegrate that has been exacerbated by misbehaviour of economic agents. Third, we look at opposing crisis responses—from multilaterals to regional organisations to global civil society—and realise that responses from either pro-neoliberal or anti-neoliberal forces are <em>fundamentally the same <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal">through the years, simply re-articulating analyses and programmes that they have respectively pursued and advocated long before the global crisis. And fourth, in the context of East and Southeast Asia, we examine the tendencies of the global crisis vis-à-vis the strengthening and even acceleration of emergent <em>authoritarian liberalism </em>in the region despite and because of the global crisis.</span></em></span></em></span></p></div>

KW - global crisis

KW - neo-liberalism

KW - financial crises

KW - authoritarian liberalism

KW - east asia

KW - southeast asia

KW - constitutive role of crisis

KW - functional character of crisis

KW - structure-agency dynamics in financial crises

UR - http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2009.htm

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