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Privatizing the state

Béatrice Hibou

2004279 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Columbia University Press · 279 pages · ENGISBN 9780231134644

"This book challenges received ideas about the process of globalization and its presumed homogenization by suggesting that rather than weakening the powers of the state, privatization actually strengthens it. With examples from Russia, Poland, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa, the book questions the supposed inefficiency of states in regulating capitalism and the role economic and financial knowledge play as substitutes for political and social analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

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