Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 113805805X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 314 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Authors from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology and political science, social policy and economics, employ case studies from the Global North and Global South to explore how particular values, morals and standards of behaviour rendered dominant by neoliberalism are encouraging the proliferation of fraud. Many business sectors in today's global economy are rife with economic crime. Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices have engendered a type of sociocultural change across the globe which is facilitating widespread fraud. This book will be indispensable for those who are interested in political economy, development studies, economics, anthropology, sociology and criminology.. This book investigates the moral worlds of fraud in different social and geographical settings, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the outcome of just a few ‘bad apples&rsquo
David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. Jörg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds, UK.
It also shows how old moral certainties, civic duties and social obligations have been cast aside or corrupted in so many situations, and new forms of anti-social business behaviour falsely justified so long as the core imperatives of neoliberalism are defended and advanced – privatization, liberalization, marketization, commercialization and minimization (of the state). The robust institutional arrangements of the textbook case must therefore be contrasted with the inherent institutional fragility that results whenever fraudulent practices become the established means of playing the game. David Whyte and Jörg Wiegratz are to be congratulated for bringing together such high-quality chapters, each of w