... system. Moreover, prices also responded to government shortages and the “intensity of demand that overwhelmed legal restrictions on trade, leading to black markets.”22 Despite the ideological differences in how prices were constructed...

... and historical particularities. We caution against addressing “neoliberalism” as a uniform project that signifies the retreat of government or the triumph of a global market economy that fetishizes the “free”; instead we call for more attention to the ways in which socialism is deeply, though unevenly, woven...

... associated with the new forms of community governance: (1) the making of new subjects who are autonomous enough to choose what to consume (and therefore stimulate the market) but also responsible enough not to challenge social order; (2) the creation of subjects who will govern themselves at the level...

... the oftentimes opaque global economic coding of the rhetoric of stakeholding in which capitalist market praxis is philosophically configured as a means to the ends of moral governance and progressive change. The Darfur Olympics: Global Citizenship and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Jennifer Hubbert...

... the Thaksin regime has “closed the gap between business and politics” (2004: 230). The attention to practices of market-­based governance under both Thaksin regimes aims to offer context to the Thai government’s response to trafficking in persons...

.... Laden as it is with cultural and historical associations, suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary Chi- na’s booming, globally oriented market economy and to new, “postsocialist” forms of state governance and social control. It plays...

... the end of the Cold War as new forms of urban governance identi ed as “neoliberal” recon gured urban landscapes to advance a free- market economy. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, new strategies of urban renewal across Eastern Europe...

... this issue should remain open to diverse ideas. To do this, it is crucial to go beyond some ideological grids. Simplistic dichotomies such as humanity/nature, market/government, society/state, modern/traditional, capitalism/socialism, growth/poverty...

... driving forces for the national economy, opening up the Chinese market to foreign capital, as well as allowing local governments to appropri- ate foreign investment and land ownership to guide economic development in accordance with national...

... to the value of the estate to be demolished. Through compensation packages of both cash and properties, the municipal government transforms relocated villagers into homeowners ready to participate in the urban real estate market. The mundane “arrangement” described above shows that demolition...

... the terms of sale, including transaction prices.7 There are no price ceilings, and the government does not publish price his- tories on parcels, nor should it, he insisted. Price here reflects two different kinds of market. One is a market struc...

... well after so- called liberalization was initiated in other regional economies, including China. Vietnam’s studied embrace of market capital- ism has not been comprehensive; rather, its market capitalism is steeped in governing structures...

... class in the past ten years. Certainly the most obvious result of market economic reform is the completebreakdownofthirtycontinuousyearsofsocialistclassstructure.On one hand, former social classes such as worker, peasant, government cadre...

....” Different forms of knowledge and government, therefore, are seen as con- ducive to producing different forms of suzhi in different subjects. Thus, in the context of the “socialist market economy” zhi is the substance, the bare life, of the body...

... while the government simultaneously reformed en- terprises (mainly through the contract system) won the day. This reform path was largely successful because price reform posed obstacles to the old structural monopolies while also animating market...

... of running garment factories. The initiation of market reforms and subsequent windfall of profits transformed the contours of class and kin relations among the tu er dai peasant landlords. Specifically, postsocialist forms of population control, state governance, property ownership, and social...

... issued in November of “the government began issuing certi cates at the plot level.”42 The right to buy and sell land- use rights increasingly facili- tated a real estate market with each passing set of regulations, and articles positions 20:2 Spring 2012...

...Giovanni Arrighi Duke University Press 2007 States, Markets, and Capitalism, East and West Giovanni Arrighi Writing in the mid-1960s, Geoffrey Barraclough contended that when the history of the first half of the twentieth century — which for most...

... are located in government research institutions, demonstrating that the state apparatus is not monolithic. This discourse is centered on a concept of economic rationality based on the laws of market freedom and supply and demand (e.g., Lu 2017a , 2017b ). The urban villagers are viewed as the subjects...

... Greater Kunming. The land was expected to become the Snail Bay International Commercial Center — a large-­scale commodity wholesale market. The compensation rate offered for appropriation by the Kunming city government was 160,000 yuan per mu...