If our contemporary managerial obsession with all things numerical and quantitative has its roots in military planning in the 1950s rather than in neoliberal economic policy in the 1980s, then surely we need to pay more attention to the idea of security in political economy.
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The forum editors propose to re-orient the agenda of IPE studies away from the critique of neoliberalism as ideology and a corporate practice to a comprehensive study of managerial governance as a complex field that was shaped by technology, science, politics and management practice and [...]
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The emergence of managerial governance points to a more profound socio-institutional transformation than what it often implied in International Political Economy (IPE) and related fields. If discussed, the study of managerial ideas and behaviour has frequently been depicted as something [...]
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In a previous post we highlighted the distinct historical trajectory of managerial practices of governance and their long lineage back to innovations made in the 1950s US defense sector. We also discussed what were the specific features of the paradigm of managerial governance in order to [...]
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Quantification and control share a long history. As the Harvard Business Review put it in 2012, “You manage what you measure.” And in our age of Big Data, measurement is rife. Whether the GPS trackers measuring the micro-movements of Amazon factory workers or the standardised tests [...]
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