The way we were: command-and-control centres in the global space-economy on the eve of the 2008 geo-economic transition
Peter J. Taylor
Pengfei Ni
Ben Derudder
Michael Hoyler
Jin Huang
Fengyong Lu
Kathryn Pain
Frank Witlox
Xiaolan Yang
David Bassens
Wei Shen
2134/5976
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/The_way_we_were_command-and-control_centres_in_the_global_space-economy_on_the_eve_of_the_2008_geo-economic_transition/9481373
This is a short note to take stock of where we were before the financial crisis
began to seriously undermine the global economy in late 2008. For once the
phrase ‘to turn the world upside down’ could hardly be more merited: the most
right-wing US President in living memory is accused by members of Congress
in his own party of being a ‘Bolshevik’ pursuing ‘financial socialism’ while in
the UK the ‘New Labour’ government is being praised for nationalising more
of the British economy than the most socialist, post-1945 Labour government
ever did. Instead of the diminution of the state, the era of neoliberal
globalization appears to have culminated in a reassertion of state economic
power: place-based public finance has come to the rescue of flow-based
private finance.
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