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Submitted July 12, 2019
Published 2019-07-12

Artículos

No. 16 (2019): Cátedra

DEL ESTADO COMO EMPRESA. DIFERENCIAS Y CONTRADICCIONES ENTRE EL DISCURSO ECONÓMICO NEOLIBERAL Y LA POLÍTICA DEL ESTADO-NACIÓN


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Published: 2019-07-12

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García de Paredes, P. (2019). DEL ESTADO COMO EMPRESA. DIFERENCIAS Y CONTRADICCIONES ENTRE EL DISCURSO ECONÓMICO NEOLIBERAL Y LA POLÍTICA DEL ESTADO-NACIÓN. Cátedra, (16), 108–125. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/catedra/article/view/606

Abstract

This essay’s mission is to postulate and explore a number of hypothesis that relate today’s economic discourse- channeled through neoliberal politicians coming from private sector businesses and business training- with modern nation-state concepts and politics. To that end, I’ll use analogies that clarify the basic use of concepts in both worldviews. My main hypothesis is that current economic discourse permeates neoliberal leader’s behavior and analysis, in ways that transitioning into a State-oriented discourse is harder to attain. These apparent contradictions show that politics of the State is a task belonging to another intellectual sphere, separate from business power and economic discourse.  I find that politics and Nation-State theory are not related to productivity or mercantilist ideas, neither to neoliberalism’s focus on technological innovation. Both realms are quite distant from each other. As a second hypothesis, I wish to explore the possibility that within current neoliberal leaders’ minds, a number of contradictions exist that are blocking urgent problem resolution and casting shadows over popular understanding of basic concepts related to Nation-State politics and policy.

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