Goodbye Washington Confusion , hello Wall Street Consensus : contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy
Goodbye Washington Confusion , hello Wall Street Consensus : contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy
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再见华盛顿混乱,你好华尔街共识:当代国家资本主义和产业战略的空间化
DOI:
10.1080/13563467.2022.2091534
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Schindler S
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作者:
Schindler S
Recent scholarship has narrated the financialization of development, which Gabor (2021) refers to as theWall Street Consensus(WSC), whose purpose is to facilitate the investment of global capital in Southern infrastructure by institutionalising the distribution of risk, reward and responsibility between investors and states. Gabor’s conceptualization of the ‘de-risking state’ subordinated to global finance capital stands in stark contrast with scholarship onstate capitalism, which charts the unprecedented entrepreneurial role played by states as investors and market participants. Our objective in this article is to reconcile the apparent paradox presented by the simultaneous emergence of the WSC and evolution of state capitalism. We argue that the WSC affords de-risking states scope to pursue autonomous strategic visions, and many have responded by embracing infrastructure-led development designed to integrate places within global value chains in ways that foster economic diversification, industrial upgrading and balanced regional growth. We present three examples in which de-risking states have implemented spatialised industrial strategies – Saudi Arabia’sVision 2030, Kenya’sVision 2030andThailand 4.0. In each of these cases spatialised industrial strategies undertaken by de-risking states have fuelled the proliferation of large-scale infrastructure projects and served to justify political centralization.