Full Description
Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrong-doing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many people would consider wrong. It furthermore asks whether ideas of economic right and wrong have become so fragmented and localized that collective judgement has become almost impossible.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
James G. Carrier
Chapter 1. Marketing Clientelism vs Corruption: Pharmaceutical Off-label Promotion on Trial
Kalman Applbaum
Chapter 2. The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance
Emil A. Royrvik
Chapter 3. Under Pressure: Financial Supervision in the Post-2008 European Union
Daniel Seabra Lopes
Chapter 4. Of Taxation, Instability, Fraud and Calculation
Thomas Cantens
Chapter 5. Marketing Marijuana: Prohibition, Medicalization and the Commodity
Michael Polson
Chapter 6. Neoliberal Citizenship and the Politics of Corruption: Redefining Informal Exchange in Romanian Healthcare
Sabina Stan
Chapter 7. Neoliberalism, Violent Crime and the Moral Economy of Migrants
Kathy Powell
Chapter 8. How Does Neoliberalism Relate to Unauthorized Migration? The U.S.-Mexico Case
Josiah McC. Heyman
Conclusion: All That is Normal Melts Into Air: Rethinking Neoliberal Rules and Deviance
Steven Sampson
Index
