Privatisation through Time and Space
IIPPE Training Workshop - Privatisation through Time and Space Ben Fine (SOAS University of London) IFIs, Neoliberalism and Knowledge Cluster (SOAS, University of London) and IIPPE Training Workshops present: Privatisation through Time and Space, an Interdisciplinary Workshop Professor Ben Fine takes a long view on today’s privatization programmes examining the changing nature of state intervention in the economy. Privatization is discussed alongside the first, second and third phases of neoliberalism, whose scholarship, ideology and policy-in-practice form a particular world vision which shift over time, place, and issue. Participants will discuss how privatisation, broadly conceived as the promotion of private interests in the organisation of social and physical infrastructure, has changed during the ‘neoliberal period’. Central to these developments is how forms of financialisation made possible by privatisation and changing roles of the state have encouraged new forms of private sector involvement in provisioning, with important implications for social and economic reproduction. These developments may also be seen as a form of variegated policy transfer from the OECD to non-OECD countries, aided and abetted by international institutions, as well as a result of policy experimentation through state/finance nexuses. Speaker(s): Ben Fine (SOAS) Event Date: 28 June 2017 Released by: IIPPE Podcasts