Political Economies of Scale: Fast Policy, Interscalar Relations, and Neoliberal Workfare*

By Jamie Peck. 2002

452 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Administration, Urban Studies

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In General Health Professions

1. Mark Graham
2. I. R. Cook
3. Jamie Peck
4. Ray Hudson
5. N. Theodore
6. K. Ward
7. Adrian Smith
8. Henry S. C. Yeung

In Public Administration

1. Ray Hudson
2. Adrian Smith
3. Henry S. C. Yeung
4. N. Theodore
5. N. Brenner
6. Mark Graham
7. Jamie Peck
8. B. Pease

In Urban Studies

1. Henry S. C. Yeung
2. T. Hutton
3. A. Pratt
4. N. Brenner
5. Adrian Smith
6. Kean Birch
7. Ray Hudson
8. Simon Springer

Citations in the corpus

• Economic Geographies: Circuits, Flows and Spaces (2005, background): “Therefore national states retain a key role as ‘scale managers’, shaping decisions about scalar shifts in regulatory capacity, serving as centres of persuasion and authors of narratives about change and reform and centres of interpretation and dissemination of knowledge about experiences elsewhere (”
• The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “willingness to work, extending the neoliberal demand for a flexible workforce into the welfare arena (Peck 2002; MacLeavy 2011; MacLeavy and Peoples 2010).”
• Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: the process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’ (2012, background): “…based on more truncated forms of learning and on the speeded-up evaluation, formation and rolling-out of policy cycles – what Peck and Theodore (2001; Peck, 2002) call ‘fast policy transfer’ – the Swedish example reflects some of the possible obstacles and conflicts involved in mobilizing…”
• The Evolution and Trajectories of English Spatial Governance: ‘Neoliberal’ Episodes in Planning (2013, background): “Despite an increasingly sophisticated theoretical understanding of state rescaling, there is limited work that attempts ‘to explore the concrete practices of rescaling in a theoretically informed and informing fashion’ (Peck, 2002, p. 333).”
• Reconceptualising the relationship between the creative economy and the city: Learning from the financial crisis ☆ (2013, background): “The ‘fast policy’ tendency (Peck, 2002) and widespread mimicry of (so-called) ‘best practice’ lessons generated by the most successful cities should be replaced by ‘patient policy’ and commitment which recognises, inter alia, the lead time and experimentation required to build successful cultural ec”
• Rethinking relational economic geography (2005, background): “Most of these studies of the ‘relativization’ of scales (Jessop 1999; Peck 2002) begin with the view that the socio-political construction of scales is critical to our understanding of globalization tendencies and their territorial outcomes.”
• Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways (2010, background): “…however, to equate a concern with the uneven (macro-) patterning of regulatory landscapes, rule regimes and the construction of interspatial systems of policy transfer with an endorsement of such indefensible methodological tendencies (cf. Brenner 2004 ; Peck 2002; Peck et al. 2009).”
• Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods (2017, background): “Much has been said about the ways that technologies of globalisation have widened the global reach of capital at the cost of place-bound labour (see Herod, 2001; Peck, 2002; Swyngedouw, 1997).”
• The state, institutional frameworks and the dynamics of capital in global production networks (2015, background): “…for capital accumulation involving the insertion of local industrial capabilities into global production networks and, as such, national and international state projects often articulate to play critical roles in the ‘scalar management’ of economic restructuring and regulation (Peck, 2002: 357).”
• Neoliberalism and Australian social work: Accommodation or resistance? (2011, background): “Peck (2002), for example, warns against over-generalized accounts of the supposed monolithic and omnipresent version of neoliberalism on the grounds that it fails to identify the inevitable local variability and complex internal considerations.”