Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index.
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Introduction -- Perception, representation, theory construction and the globalization debate -- Performative discourse and social form -- Configuring the global : globalization as spatio-temporal narrative -- Business globalization and the offshore economy -- The private economy of the post-national state -- The anti-economy of social exclusion -- Conclusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The authors explore the stories, myths, ideologies and rhetoric surrounding concrete processes of globalization and seek to explain the parochial interests that give rise to them and the extent to which they impact globalization rather than simply describe it.