Remaking Market Society : A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times (Hardcover)

Introduction

1 Social theory as critique of political economy: the Polanyian synthesis and its influence

2 Theories of the second modernity: a critique

3 A modernist counternarrative

4 New Public Management and the British civil service: setting the template of a complex policy instrument

5 Refining the template: NPM in British higher education

6 Exporting the template: EU integration policies and the diffusion of the NPM template

7 Conclusion: is knowledge the new fictitious commodity?

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography

Index