|
(*) Or "locational competition", which refers to what
Zygmunt Bauman calls the "pedlar/beggar" role of government within neoliberalism:
Governments are reduced to the role of standortkonkurrenz to seduce free-floating capital to flow in and to cajole it to
resist the temptation to flow out ... (it is the) ... pedlar/beggar role to which governments have been reduced in their struggle
to keep their subjects alive and away from mischief ...
This is to help meet the demands of the
Washington Consensus, and especially the avoidance of
tax.
|