Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa. Faced with a deep economic and political crisis, African governments have been compelled by powerful external agencies, in particular the Bretton Woods institutions and western states, to pursue this agenda as a necessary...

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Turn to the Market -- 1 The Triumph of the Market -- 2 Business Moves: Markets, Nations, and Inequality -- 3 Disposable Workers -- 4 The Low-Wage, Low-Skill Strategy -- Part II: The Path Upward? -- 5 Education: Choice, Profit, and...

Introduction / Keith Hart -- Economy versus democracy -- Habits of austerity : financialization and new ways of dealing with money / Jürgen Schraten -- What financial crisis? The global politics of finance : distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives / Horacio Ortiz -- Party...

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hungary and the EU in the Political and Scholarly Imagination -- 1. The 2004 Hungarian Paprika Ban -- 2. The 2008 Foie Gras Boycott -- 3. The 2010 Red Mud Spill -- 4. Neoliberalism,...