This book is a selection of papers from the 2024 International Scientific Conference “Globalization and its Socio-Economic Consequences,” held in Rajecké Teplice, Slovakia. It explores the effects of globalisation on economic, social, and cultural structures, addressing both opportunities and challenges. The publication covers a range of topics, including Industry 4.0, digital economies, innovation, economic sustainability, and behavioural economics. Its aim is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue by bringing together contributions from academics, researchers, and industry professionals. This book provides valuable insights into the dynamics of globalisation, making it a valuable resource for those seeking to navigate the complexities of the evolving global landscape.
While the history of neoliberalism and Thatcherism in the United Kingdom has been the subject of much analysis, the history of ordoliberalism, a German variety of neoliberalism, in the same country is unexplored. Drawing on grey policy literature and archival material from inside party political discourses, this article examines engagements with the core ordoliberal concept of the social market economy in British political discourse and identifies not isolated incidents but a recurrent and sustained engagement from the 1970s to the 1990s. Across this periodisation, social markets, and with it ordoliberalism, appear in three different policy debates, in the Conservative Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Labour Party. This variety of neoliberalism, and its accompanying social and moral thought, features in the legitimation of neoliberalism and neoliberal policies.
This article uncovers managerialism's footprints within the postindependence developmental imagination in India—specifically its forays into the rural socioeconomic world. It argues that by following this trail of managerialism, we can gain new insights into the intellectual frameworks of rural development and the many ways in which they have historically reproduced and propped up structures of power in the countryside. The article focuses on an experiment conducted in the 1970s that sought to stimulate the productivity of the “rural poor” through the promise of skilling and the conceit of “problem solving.” It situates this experiment in the gradual unfurling of the Green Revolution, which laid bare the contradictions inherent in the question of agrarian productivity. Furthermore, it shows how the issue of rural nonagrarian labor during this period was being taken up by the emerging discipline of “rural management,” which in turn produced its own reformist rationales. This article analyzes the inherent contradictions of these rationales and the developmental discourse they legitimized.
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