City of Gold

by Westbrook,David A.

• ISBN13: 9780415945394
• ISBN10: 0415945399
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life. In this wide-ranging, multi-tiered exploration of our contemporary global political economy, he touches on four major themes: the historical foundation of the city of gold, an assessment of its political scope, its current discontents, and ways to make a better--albeit imperfect--world from within it.

Author Biography

David A. Westbrook is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, SUNY, and is a former corporate lawyer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(20)
Part 1: Desire's Constitution
Chapter I Conception	21	(18)
Chapter II Money as Communication	39	(18)
Chapter III Finance and the War against Time	57	(18)
Chapter IV Urban Renewal	75	(22)
Chapter V Governance	97	(20)
Part 2: Constitutional Critique
Chapter VI Alienation	117	(12)
Chapter VII Inauthenticity	129	(22)
Chapter VIII Identity, Tense	151	(20)
Part 3: Exhausted Philosophies
Chapter IX The Reformation of Economics	171	(14)
Chapter X After Economic Justice	185	(28)
Chapter XI The Disenchantment of Liberalism	213	(24)
Part 4: Toward a Metropolitan Political Economy
Chapter XII True Markets	237	(18)
Chapter XIII Orderly Markets	255	(18)
Chapter XIV Beyond the Market: Authority and Identity	273	(18)
Conclusion: The Possibility of Affection	291	(12)
Afterword on Method: Apology, Essay, Myth	303	(4)
Notes	307	(38)
Index	345