Economic Patriotism in Open Economies
Economic Patriotism in Open Economies Edited by Ben Clift, Cornelia Woll November 2012, Routledge The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that governments continuously seek to steer their economies rather than leaving them to free markets. Despite the ambitions of international economic cooperation, such interventionism is decidedly local. Some politicians even proudly evoke « economic patriotism » to justify their choices. This volume links such populism to a specific set of tensions – the paradox of neo-liberal democracy – and argues that the phenomenon is [...]