Market Justice explores the challenges for the new global left as it seeks to construct alternative means of societal organization. Focusing on Bolivia, 2007 Fellow Brent Z. Kaup examines a testing ground of neoliberal and counter-neoliberal policies and an exemplar of bottom-up globalization. Kaup argues that radical shifts towards and away from free market economic trajectories are not merely shaped by battles between transnational actors and local populations, but also by conflicts between competing domestic elites and the ability of the oppressed to overcome traditional class divides. Further, the author asserts that struggles against free markets are not evidence of opposition to globalization or transnational corporations. They should instead be understood as struggles over the forms of global integration and who benefits from them. Buy it on Amazon.

Publication Details

Title
Market Justice: Political Economic Struggle in Bolivia
Authors
Kaup, Brent Zachary
Publisher
University of Cambridge / Cambridge University Press
Publish Date
December 2012
ISBN
978-1107030282
Citation
Kaup, Brent Zachary, Market Justice: Political Economic Struggle in Bolivia (University of Cambridge / Cambridge University Press, December 2012).
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