Bulletin n. 3/2006 | ||
December 2006 | ||
Waller Marguerite |
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Addicted to Virtue: The Globalization Policy-Maker | ||
in Social Identities , Volume 12, Number 5, September 2006 , 2006 , 575-594 | ||
The dominant economic institutions whose version of globalization dominates today have sustained a remarkably devastating homogeneity of thought and policy-making. Drawing upon Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and its Discontents, World Bank annual bank reports, the writings of Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci, trauma and addiction theory, and other analytical and documentary resources, this essay investigates the imperviousness of the economic policy-making subject position to evidence of the violence that its economic policies have visited upon lives, cultures, and ecosystems. | ||