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This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale. It relates the power of entrepreneurship, investment and technology to four areas in which progress is urgently needed to get out of the world’s current impasse. These game-changing innovations in companies; a way forward for the global fashion industry that reconciles competitiveness and worker dignity; turning around the energy crisis; and restoring capital markets to being the funders of human progress and prosperity that they once were―the pieces of the puzzle that is our future. Numerous case studies and actionable guidelines show how to concretely get the job done.

Globalization is a forceful phenomenon. It is also a buzzword. What is the systematic relationship between experts' models and the way globalization reshapes economy and society? How do paradigmatic statements such as the Washington Consensus impact on social reality? And how do real-world outcomes such as the collapse of the Argentine economy change the way we theorize economic relationships? Based on fieldwork in the Caribbean and inspired by the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault, the author argues that to understand globalization, we must analyze material and symbolic factors and their dialectical interaction simultaneously. Part one analyzes how economic thinking and policy in Latin America have evolved historically. To uncover the mechanisms that produce economic thinking and policy, the author formulates a new social theory: interpretive political economy. Integrating research in anthropology, economics, and sociology, he examines four levels of social reality: meaning structures, discourse, practice, and material conditions. Part two provides in-depth case studies on Cuba and the Dominican Republic. What does the rise of economic surveillance mean for globalizing socialism and neopatrimonial capitalism? Does thinking about social relations in the language of the market affect these relations in any systematic way?

" Whether in the idioms of corporate profit or national development, joint ventures function as a ubiquitous operator in discourses on international economic cooperation. But unlike the ""development"" apparatus whose mechanisms of control and object constitution are now being deconstructed, these interorganizational partnerships are so far virtually overlooked in cultural analysis. Extending the deconstruction of development to the realm of joint venture cooperation, Maximillian Martin integrates the two domains in a provocative analysis that inquires into the reorganization of the realities experienced by ""knowing subjects"" and ""knowledgeable objects"", as well as the normalization of their practices under different regimes of truth. The author concludes his discussion of the relation between discursive frames and possibilities of agency with an inquiry into the limitations of Foucauldian analysis and the promises of practice theory. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of the present process of globalization, the new geographies of power in the making, and their academic representations. Operation Cooperation will be indispensable to anyone interested in a poststructuralist approach to economic anthropology. Maximilian Martin is marketing director at J.J. Radike Publishers, Germany "