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Regulating economic globalization

Amin, A.

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A. Amin



Abstract

It is widely accepted that the rising gap in recent years between the global rich and the global poor can be linked to globalization in one way or another, although the strength and causality of the link is debated. Against the backcloth of the havoc wreaked by neo-liberalism and the Washington Consensus, new meta-narratives of global order are emerging to suggest ways of reducing global poverty and inequality. This paper examines two ‘Olympian’ visions of re-regulation along social democratic lines that propose new scalar arrangements. It evaluates these meta-narratives against another spatial ontology of regulation thrown up by the economy of global flows and networks – an unfolding regime of heterarchical order that is topological, hybrid, decentred and coalitional in its workings. The paper argues that these new ‘micro-worlds’ of regulation are as significant as, and equivalent to, so-called macro-orders of regulation in influencing global poverty and inequality, that they throw into doubt assumptions of control and reach held by the meta-narratives, and that their rise amounts to a situation of global regulatory excess, rather than, as some have argued, a condition of regulatory deficit or global disorder.

Citation

Amin, A. (2004). Regulating economic globalization. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(2), 217-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00126.x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2004-06
Deposit Date Jul 1, 2008
Publicly Available Date Jul 1, 2008
Journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Print ISSN 0020-2754
Electronic ISSN 1475-5661
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 29
Issue 2
Pages 217-233
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00126.x
Keywords Globalization, Economy, Regulation, Order, Heterarchy.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1573225

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