Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance

Edited by
SIMON LEE
University of Hull,
U.K.
and
STEPHEN MCBRIDE
Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada

CONTENTS
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
1. Introduction: Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global
Governance in the Twenty-First Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SIMON LEE AND STEPHEN McBRIDE
Part I: National Differences in the Face of Pressures to Converge
2. European Economic Integration: The Threat to Modell
Deutschland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
MICHAEL WHITTALL
3. Stranded on the Common Ground?: Global Governance
and State Power in England and Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SIMON LEE
4. Assessing the Globalization–Decentralization Nexus: Patterns of
Education and Reform in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Nicaragua . . . . . 61
MICHAEL McNAMARA
Part II: Trans-National Policy Prescriptions
5. Tracking Neo-Liberalism: Labour Market Policies
in the OECD Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
STEPHEN McBRIDE, KATHLEEN McNUTT
AND RUSSELL WILLIAMS
6. Social Economy Policies as Flanking Mechanisms for Neo-Liberalism:
Trans-national Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions,
Local Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
PETER GRAEFE
7. Assessing the Convergence Thesis of Legal Reforms in
Emerging Market Economies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
LINDA ELMOSE
Part III: Labour: A Special Case in the Global Economy?
8. Governance, Trade and Labour Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
CHRISTINA GABRIEL
9. Neo-Liberal Policies and Immigrant Women in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
HABIBA ZAMAN
Part IV: The Need for Reform
10. The Logic of Neo-Liberalism and the Political Economy
of Consumer Debt-Led Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
JOHNNA MONTGOMERIE
11. World Trade and World Money: The Case for a New World
Currency Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
DUNCAN CAMERON
12. Multilateral Institution-Building in a Neo-Liberal Era:
The Case of Competition Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
MARC LEE
13. The World Trade Organization and Global Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
THEODORE H. COHN
14. Human Welfare and the Future of the World Trade Organization:
Rethinking the International Institutional Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
COLIN TYLER
15. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development:
Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
RICHARD WOODWARD
16. Conclusion: The Need to Rebuild the Public Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
SIMON LEE AND STEPHEN McBRIDE
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265


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